Re: w only giving `-' as the FROM field
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Rutter <chris@fluff.org> writes:
>
> Chris> For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost*
> Chris> all the time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections
> Chris> made through `telnetd'. Finally, with the update to PAMed
> Chris> `login', I once again have the hostnames correctly
> Chris> appearing in FROM again. Does anyone know why this wasn't
> Chris> working for so long?
>
> I have had this problem reported to me too. Something in potato
> broke a while ago.. but it never happened to me.
It's a bug in the telnet daemon. I got a message the other day that this bug
has been fixed with the latest version.
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