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In article <1992Nov20.134347.9096@ifi.unizh.ch> lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Apostolos Lytras) writes:
>Argghhh.... root runs shellscripts!! DON'T DON'T DON'T! A shellscript
>that is run by root *is* a threat to the security of your system and 
>possibly of many other systems as well. Especially when it is supposed
>to run inattendedly.

Bull.

Do you know how many shell scripts there are on your system?  How 'bout
/etc/rc?  Guess who runs it.

SETUID shell scripts, now there's a problem.  Not to mention *writeable*
shell scripts that root runs.

>Besides, your programs look like a lot of redundancy to me. Every Login
>and Logout gets logged (with time, connecting host etc.) in
>/usr/adm/wtmp. There is also information about shutdowns, reboots and
>crashes in that file.

Until NeXTstep 3.0, console logins weren't logged anywhere except maybe
process accounting if you do that (and everyone should; can't hurt and it's
of great help to determine what went wrong).

>Cheers
>- A.

If you want to give users a login hook, uh, hook, just have a little check
like:

if [ -f /users/home/dir/$1/.loginhook ]; then
	/bin/su - $1 -c /users/home/dir/$1/.loginhook
fi

Runs their file $HOME/.loginhook as them.  Does anyone know of a way to
specify a home dir of a user other than your own?  There's always finding it
out via getpwent'isms, but something like ~$1 in sh.  I know you can always
write it in csh, but, well, I don't want to.
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Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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