Bug in all versions of OpenSSH

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Sun Apr 7 02:54:59 EST 2002


On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 03:37:14PM -0800, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> Lots of things are broken by default; doesn't make them correct behavior.
> Sites wishing to use wtmp etc. to do accounting on who came in from where do

sshd works fine and logs every login with syslog.

logging every scp, cvs commit and non-interactiv in wtmp is silly.

wtmp is not for accounting or auditing and will not work w/o
a pty/tty on many systems.



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