NetBSD Problem Report #377

From gnats  Tue Aug  2 16:13:27 1994
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 01:13:40 +0200
From: Thorsten Lockert <tholo@SigmaSoft.COM>
Reply-To: tholo@SigmaSoft.COM
To: gnats-bugs@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: login(1) checks tty name to determine if it is a dialup
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>Number:         377
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       login(1) checks tty name to determine if login is from dialup
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 02 16:20:06 +0000 1994
>Closed-Date:    Wed Aug 03 10:04:30 +0000 1994
>Last-Modified:  
>Originator:     Thorsten Lockert
>Release:        current
>Organization:
SigmaSoft, Th. Lockert
>Environment:

System: NetBSD gandalf.bbb.no 1.0-ALPHA NetBSD 1.0-ALPHA (GANDALF) #2: Sun Jul 24 18:47:54 MET DST 1994 tholo@gandalf.bbb.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GANDALF i386


>Description:
	In login(1) there is code to syslog when a login is done through
	a dialup tty.  The check it performs looks like this:

	if (tty[sizeof("tty")-1] == 'd')
		syslog(LOG_INFO, "DIALUP %s, %s", tty, pwd->pw_name);
>How-To-Repeat:
	Read the code of login(1)
>Fix:
	One fix might be to add an extra flag in ttys(5) to indicate that
	some tty is a dialup, thus removing the dependency on such ttys to
	be named "ttydX".
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: deraadt 
State-Changed-When: Wed Aug 3 03:04:30 PDT 1994 
State-Changed-Why:  
the dialup tty hack is pretty silly. such a feature is probably 
not required, if it was desirable it could be added on a site-to-site 
basis by changing hte sources. in any case, it is probably more important to 
syslog() rlogin/telnet sessions than dialup sessions. 
so.. the dialup hack has just been deleted. 
>Unformatted:

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