I have the same problem of being notified from root if some user usees the
write or talk program:
Message from root@mariah.bo.infn.it on ttyp6 at 09:17 ...


and the meassage was written by user rj45 not by root.


mariah [9:19am]{rj45}[/etc]> write rj45
write: rj45 is logged in more than once; writing to ttyp6


the same happens with talk.

The kernel I ahve is this:

NetBSD mariah.bo.infn.it 1.5_ALPHA NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA (GENERIC) #2: Thu Jun
22 13:59:59 PDT 2000     matt@cheetah.local:/other/kobj/vax/GENERIC vax


maybe someone else withthis latest snapshot has this problem ??
I checked hte talk and write program
mariah [9:21am]{rj45}[/etc]> ls -la /usr/bin/talk /usr/libexec/ntalkd 
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20480 Jun 22 03:44 /usr/bin/talk
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16384 Jun 22 02:09 /usr/libexec/ntalkd

theyare nto ssetuid to root

and also in the inetd.conf

mariah [9:21am]{rj45}[/etc]> grep talk /etc/inetd.conf
ntalk           dgram   udp     wait    nobody:tty
/usr/libexec/ntalkd     ntalkd

nobody is the owner at execute time.

so everything looks correct.

maybe it is somethin related to the kernel ??


THANKS

Rick