Subject: Re: max_{login,group}len in /etc/security
To: None <tech-security@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 04/15/2004 16:09:24
In article <20040412174546.GA23415@multics.mit.edu>,
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote on Sun, 11 Apr 2004
>at 20:58:51 -0400 in <20040412005851.E51087B44@berkshire.research.att.com>:
>
>> I didn't check.  It's amusing to look at, say, 'talkd', and see what it 
>> does.  (I'll save you the trouble -- it uses source code, separately 
>> compiled, from 'who', creating a dependency which is in no way obvious 
>> to anyone hacking on the 'who' code.)
>
>Since you noticed, would you care to put a comment in the 'who' code?

- all the code in the tree knows aboth about utmp and utmpx.
- most (all?) code in the base tree handles utmp reading via utmpentry.[ch].
- I meant to move utmp entry functions  to libutil at some point.

christos