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From: glennrp@BRL.MIL (Glenn Randers-Pehrson, TBD|WMB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Bug with /etc/config/login.options?
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Date: 2 Mar 91 17:59:43 GMT
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 > From: mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin)
 > Subject: Bug with /etc/config/login.options?
 > I just added the 'passwdreq' option in the login.options file.  The
 > system still allows rsh commands to operate if the apprpriate .netrc
 > entries are set up, but it demands that the user change his/her passwd
 > if a rlogin is attempted from such a machine!

	Same thing happened to me this week.  220GTX running IRIX 3.3.1.
 > 
 > I think this is a bug, not a feature.  Please raise your right hand if
 > you agree....   :-)

	Right.

	By the way, I also use "syslog=fail" in login.options and it
seems to work ok.  Is there something equivalent I can do on the 3000
series machines to record login failures?

...Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@brl.mil>