Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 03:44:31 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-CVSROOT@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT log_accum.pl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951103033809.2078G-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: <11794.815338111@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 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
Damn.. I can never keep up these days. First Peter Wemm, then Jeffery
Hsu, then I became Dave Tweten, back to Jeffrey Hsu, and now Steven! No
wonder I'm having so much trouble..
Jordan
:-) :-) :-)
(well, at least we've found the problem and can fix it in inetd and the
kernel)
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