From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 24 15:58:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3E737B409; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:58:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6OMwfM08170; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:58:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6OMweg52573; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:58:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200107242258.f6OMweg52573@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Matt Dillon , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman , brian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to utmp, wtmp & lastlog entries In-Reply-To: Message from Garance A Drosihn of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:24:23 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:58:40 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is a spin-off of the thread in -security about: > bin/22595: telnetd tricked into using arbitrary peer ip [.....] > Still... If there *is* an API which would be common to both Solaris > and FreeBSD, then it should be much easier to get third-party program > authors to accept changes to use that API. > > As for the best change to make, let me suggest that we basically > follow both Matt's and Garrett's recommendations (which were made > in other messages in the thread). [.....] I'm happy to bump UT_HOSTSIZE to 56 and plan to do so in 5 days if that's the concensus (and if nobody has done so already). Garrett, would you mind looking at importing the Austin API for this ? -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message