From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/900 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Neukirchen Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: make -i with linux-pam Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:51:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87obpgkvkp.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20120513205824.16f08160@newbook> <20120514041106.GS163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120514170931.5ebe58cf@newbook> <20120516032449.GU163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <77353a536cf4831c07f838aa74905e7c@exys.org> <20120521192859.GG163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <4da7637098a099e65cafb69a43dec4f0@exys.org> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337705537 19698 80.91.229.3 (22 May 2012 16:52:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:52:17 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-901-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue May 22 18:52:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWsJi-0000cd-PH for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 18:52:14 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1706 invoked by uid 550); 22 May 2012 16:52:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 1698 invoked from network); 22 May 2012 16:52:14 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=LD9SwOA/HgAUYrKsgu6+qsidQGzFLVT5e48mbJh3AZI=; b=Bmhicq5pCLUDObyUtPa7+CkotVP1w9vis3cHZF3htHBPKiMO4JmgNLNRh32bT8sSIp VFFcjmYvIzwFAm997Ifg1OLfA3isiAan4a06Lt8EQBfOxwCVLSEqh/cPrdNbf1ICupJU yjm5TXn2eReX5FHyAgTtKbPGaC4ScguWqUyLdprpI2sCTVH1TJzh1B9m94HJDqxhFyPL uDg3/HsMSYnzemW0SF4qJtotoKNafJiFkldvwYY0wJF19+54mlm/GUGI9P3OQbCOrf/T kvfxG+RTkBhWuDfHJwlfHAGPDRaQkduBQAYTrbYGntiEfBCqlMzqr4uXd0YVVgI6PryM 07Cw== In-Reply-To: <4da7637098a099e65cafb69a43dec4f0@exys.org> (aep@exys.org's message of "Mon, 21 May 2012 22:24:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:900 Archived-At: aep writes: > On Mon, 21 May 2012 15:28:59 -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > >> Not sure what you mean here... Are you talking about using these >> files >> to kill processes that users left running after logging out? Or what? > > haha, no. I was more refering to the fact that i'm pretty sure no one > _wants_ utmp. It's just that you need it around for compiling code > from last century. A bit OT: I realize utmp has major flaws, but the feature itself (seeing which users are logged in) I consider useful, for machines with more than one user. How else can that be done? -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org