Re: w only giving `-' as the FROM field
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> 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?
> 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.
It's certainly not a bug in telnetd, or it wouldn't have been fixed by an
upgrade in login. telnetd does not write the utmp/wtmp records, it gets
login to do it as well as the authentication.
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