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Re: ut_id questions


On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:53:35AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> 
> |> Let's see... this is what Solaris showed me.  The left is ut_id, and
> |> the right is ut_line.  The / notation appears a few times, and tn??
> |> notation is sequential through utmp irregardless of the order of the
> |> ptys, so probably some daemon is responsible for all of those.
> 
> It's even worse if dtremote is involved, then ut_id is set to some random
> part of the remote address.    The Solaris man page describes ut_id as the
> "/sbin/inittab id".

That sort of thing is what I'd like to avoid.  The advantage of working
within the Debian framework is that I could fairly easily get at least
the Debian packages which use utmp to follow some set policy; but in
order for that to happen I need an appropriate policy!

Dan

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