[RFC] last(1) with security.bsd.see_other_uids support

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Thu Jun 7 07:22:27 UTC 2012


2012/6/5 Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl>:
> To avoid this, the utmpx APIs could communicate with a privileged daemon
> if the files are not readable. The daemon can check the identity of the
> caller via getpeereid(3).

+1. I would really like to have something like this. Another advantage
of this approach would be that it's a lot easier to change the file
format then. There's only one application that interacts with these
files.

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Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>


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