Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 10:48:31 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-CVSROOT@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT log_accum.pl Message-ID: <11794.815338111@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 1995 01:30:25 PST." <199511020930.BAA23378@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> swallace 95/11/02 01:30:23
>
> Modified: . log_accum.pl
> Log:
> Take $ENV{'USER'} for the login name, as rshd, telnetd and rlogind all
> set it. I'm still at a loss to explain why getlogin and `logname`
> (which make a supposedly secure system call) are returning somebody else's
> username when cvs (a non privileged process) is run on the end of a rsh.
> If I do: rsh freefall 'print getlogin' it always seems to work...
>
> (If this doesn't work after this commit, I might commandeer Jeffrey Hsu's
> login.. :-) This commit may say 'hsu' though.)
Nope, now you're Steven Wallace! Peter Wemm, man of a thousand identities! :-)
Jordan
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