Xref: utzoo alt.bbs:3005 comp.unix.sysv386:580 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: public access unix accounting & admin Message-ID: <1936@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 90 02:06:28 GMT References: <2484@sud509.ed.ray.com> <1990Sep20.154038.28980@naitc.naitc.com> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Followup-To: alt.bbs Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 12 You can write a portable login which won't take forever, but it will get complex. I have a profile which sits on a machine and is NFS mounted on a number of others. Some BSD, some SysV, various CPUs, etc. Figures out if login is from serial, telnet, or X-terminal. Lot'sa tests. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me