Hi!
>>>>> Perry E Metzger writes:
PEM> BTW, on BSD based systems, telnetd, rlogind and other programs
PEM> don't implement login functionality themselves -- they invoke
PEM> login as root with a special flag that says "please do the right
PEM> thing". This avoids the entire problem of simulating the local
PEM> system's login functionality.
Yes, that's something that would be very useful. I'm reading GNU
inetutils/telnetd, which is derived from the BSD lite networking
tools, and has login code for several platforms.
I'll see what I can abstract away from that mess, and package up into
a few lsh_objects. There are several portability nasties,
though... I've been around krb5 and logdaemon long enough to recognize
that things aren't always as pretty as they are on BSD. :(
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