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Subject: Re: setlogincontext() modifications.
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I guess my response would actually be surprise that it isn't used already.
:-)  Do those use setusercontext() at all?

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I plan on doing some patches for adding setlogincontext() calls to:
> 
> libexec/:
>   atrun/atrun.c
>   ftpd/ftpd.c
>   rshd/rshd.c
>   uucpd/uucpd.c
> 
> as an initial step towards seeing how people react.  If people can perhaps
> recommend a couple more from other parts of the tree that I could write
> patches for, that would be great.  I ask this so that I can perhaps get a
> bit more of a reaction from some people as this type of patch will effect
> some network daemons etc... 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 
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