When to utmp/wtmp revisited (was Re: Bug in all versions of OpenSSH)

[Nicolas Williams]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 06:49:38PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> wtmp and friends are for pty allocation.

Nonsense. FTP does [uw]tmp. RSH does not even syslog (see below).

SSHv2, what with the multiple channels/sessions, with SFTP, shell
sessions and what not is a superset of FTP, TELNET, RSH and so on.

Since FTP does [uw]tmp logging methinks that so should OpenSSH *for the
SSHv2 connections* *and* for individual session channels such as SFTP
and pty sessions. In fact, I'd want all channels other than
port-forwarding types, to be [uw]tmp logged, but I'm willing to follow
tradition with non-pty sessions.

Keep in mind that, traditionally, in.rshd does not even syslog
(certainly not on Solaris, where you msut turn on BSM auditing to get at
RSH/REXEC logging). So, to follow tradition, non-pty sessions shouldn't
be logged at all, right? Wrong. RSH is not as good a model for what to
do as for what not to do.

IMO,

Nico
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