Feature request (Re: SSH and forced wtmp entries ...)

[Markus Friedl]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:05:22AM +0200, Randolf Skerka wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:04:23PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > use loglevel=verbose if you care.
> 
> I'm getting a bit pissed right now. What's the problem logging login/logouts
> via wtmp? I don't see an argument other than "Use authlog" and "It's like rsh
> behaves", nobody says "It's to difficult to implement!", so why don't stop
> discussing and implementing it?
> 
> I think we discussed why it's good to have it in wtmp.

no.

i don't like the idea of having every cronjob-scp, every
sftp transfer in lastlog.

i don't like to have 1000 methods in openssh for logging
logins.

openssh should not become a drop-box for every possible feature.


-m