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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:47:28 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@staff.psinet.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Best way to hook into user logins / logouts ?
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Alex Belits wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > 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.

That won't work for scriptless PAP ppp logins which don't have a shell.

Danny