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

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:38:52AM -0400, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> some versions of ftpd do, but that's either abuse or accident.

Heh. Fine. Personally I think that syslog is almost good enough, and
possibly good enough if you use syslog-ng and good scripting. And
personally I dislike the fixed formats of [uw]tmp(x|) records.

It's the w/who/last commands that I find usefull.

But you know, depending on how you handle pam_open_session() the
decision of whether to [uw]tmp(x|) log SSHv2 connections or just pty
sessions could be left in the hands of the sysadmin. If I really care
I'll write a patch and submit it.

Cheers,

Nico
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