I think I understand the problem. Dimitry, please correct me if I'm
wrong.
Indeed it is not possible to do what we're trying to do Conrad, because
what we want to do is change the `utmp` file from the position of any
old program running on a terminal. This is a security problem because it
allows
Hi Dmitry,
Thanks for getting back to me. Unfortunately I remember little of what
I learned while digging into this two years ago, so I don't know how to
recognise a properly configured pseudo-terminal master device or a
mis-configured operating system with a broken ptsname: I'm just running
Debi
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:26:40PM +0100, Conrad Hughes wrote:
[...]
> Origin: ,
> Bug:
> Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/
> Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/
> Forwarded:
> Reviewed-By:
> Last-Update: 2017-07-24
>
> --- libutempter-1.1.6.orig/utempter.c
> +++ libutempter-1.1.6/
Sorry, the subject line is somewhat erroneous since I was still testing
things when I started the bug report: I think that logout/del works —
utmpdump doesn't show all the changes I'd expect after logout/del, but
/usr/bin/w does appear to show that logout has been enacted. The
problem is just with
Oh dear. And I now realise that this is submitted under a non-existent
release version of libutempter — that's the patched version of it I
created in order to test out the core idea in the fix, sorry. On the
offchance that it's any use, I attach the patch below.
Conrad
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