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Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box



Thank you most kindly, Mike!  Is there anything from this, that can help the original Poster?  Sign onto yourself, from a VPN or some such?  

(Back in the "good old days" where being a "hacker" was Respectable, people would see if they could reconnect to their own Unix/Linux System, through as many Countries as possible.  With UUCP [Anyone else remember THAT?], you could get, quite a "Telephone Circle" going.  Oh well!!!)

Kenneth Parker

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 09:03:15PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
I haven't reviewed the Source Code for the "who" command, to see how it gets
that IP Address.  Anybody?

It gets it from your login program or pam writing to /var/run/utmp

Mike Stone


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