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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@staff.psinet.net.au>
To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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Subject: Re: Best way to hook into user logins / logouts ?
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> > For what I'm working on I need to hook into when users login and logout.
> > The "best" way I can find currently is hooking into the wtmp updates in
> > libc (especially for the logouts), does anyone know any better ways?
> 
>   That will be completely broken for xterm. Actually it all depends on
> what "login" is, and for all imaginable needs you can use /etc/profile
> or wrapper as user shell (and defined in /etc/shells) that exec's real
> shell.

Logging in is easy (I was thinking /etc/profile :) the thing is when
people logout .. I have some people on this box with real shells (admins),
and I have others with slip, others with ppp, and others with remote
logins into a shell machine. I'd rather hack one thing than hack lots (and
have to keep hacking everytime we add something new:)

Adrian.