Privsep and AIX..

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:34:53PM -0500, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> I sent the first one privately to Darren, but I think everyone with AIX
> (and those WORKING for IBM) should comment on this...
> 
> First off I noticed LOGIN= is stated as it should be set, but is not.  Not
> an issue for Privsep... but either the manpage needs to be clarified, or
> we should add it.

For my initial usrinfo hack, I just looked at what AIX rlogind is setting,
and it does not set LOGIN= - just LOGNAME, NAME, TTY.  So that's what
my patch did.

> Second, what happens if TTY is always set to null?  Reason being is
> privsep occurs long before Session *s; even has a hint of knowing the
> current TTY from the looks of it.  And by than we are too late.
> 
> Can someone from IBM tell me what ramification setting TTY=null for
> userinfo(SETUINFO,..) if the process has a tty?

I'm not sure about that.  "Our" legacy application that uses usrinfo
looks only at NAME=, and doesn't care about TTY.  I have no idea what
other applications might make use of this.

gert
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