Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:21:21 +0300 From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Accounting changes Message-ID: <4627DD51.9020003@aueb.gr> In-Reply-To: <46943.1177017301@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <46943.1177017301@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20070419212253.L2913@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes: > >>> __dev_t ac_tty; /* controlling tty */ > > This field is useless, nobody uses hardwired RS-232 terminals > anymore. > > What we should do is add a systemcall or sysctl, so session creators > like getty, sshd and similar can install a session indentifying string > on the session, and then dump that in the accounting. > > sshd would log IP+port and possibly also credential used for auth. > Isn't this purpose mostly served by joining the accounting record with wtmp on the ll_line field to obtain the IP address from the ll_host field?
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