bin/66445: Add options to last(1) to ignore ftp logins (usefull for busy ftp servers) [PATCH]

[Flemming Jacobsen]

The following reply was made to PR bin/66445; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Flemming Jacobsen <fj at batmule.dk>
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar at freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/66445: Add options to last(1) to ignore ftp logins (usefull for busy ftp servers) [PATCH]
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:51:18 +0100

 Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 > According to the KISS principle of Unix, one should use such tools
 > as grep(1) or awk(1) to exclude some lines from last(1) output.
 > Have you considered that?
 
 This can be seen as violating KISS, yes.
 And if people want to dump the patch for that reason, i have no
 complaints. This patch is for convinience, not for critical
 functionality.
 
 As for ftpd -W, it doesn't log regular ftp logins, which is
 really bad for security.
 
 Maybe a better lolution would be to teach ftpd not to log annon
 logins to wtmp.
 
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 Flemming Jacobsen                                  Email: fj at batmule.dk
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