Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Gertzfield wrote: >> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt