cvs commit: src/kerberos5/lib/libroken Makefile

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Tue Feb 3 09:27:26 PST 2004


On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:06:52AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> Only that's not correct for most systems :-)
> 
> getlogin(2) returns what was previously passed to setlogin(2) (usually
> by login(1)).  But this could indeed be a part of the problem,
> especially since there is a known bug in ssh involving a missing
> setsid() ...

Ahhh! I've recently seen getlogin return the wrong thing on -stable
boxes and consequently programs like write announce the wrong
username. People could test this theory by writing to their own
tty on freefall and seeing if their own username shows up.

	David.


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