Re: setlogincontext() modifications.

From: Robert Watson (rwatson@FreeBSD.org)
Date: 08/31/01


Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:56:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>

I guess my response would actually be surprise that it isn't used already.
:-) Do those use setusercontext() at all?

Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I plan on doing some patches for adding setlogincontext() calls to:
>
> libexec/:
> atrun/atrun.c
> ftpd/ftpd.c
> rshd/rshd.c
> uucpd/uucpd.c
>
> as an initial step towards seeing how people react. If people can perhaps
> recommend a couple more from other parts of the tree that I could write
> patches for, that would be great. I ask this so that I can perhaps get a
> bit more of a reaction from some people as this type of patch will effect
> some network daemons etc...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
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