On Sunday December 06 2015 21:52:21 David Faure wrote:

> > Question is, how useful is this in KPty?
> 
> `utempter is a privileged helper program that writes utmp/wtmp entries for 
> unprivileged programs.`

I can read, you know ;)

> 
> Does utmp or wtmp exist on OSX?
> Hmm, yes, but deprecated -- 
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/utmp.5.html
> So probably not worth it.

There's utmpx nowadays, which isn't marked as deprecated, and is backwards 
compatible with utmp:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/utmpx.5.html

Question is, what are we missing out on without it? Is this what kdesu is based 
on, for instance?

R.
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