>Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:05:30 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Robert Watson
>I'd actually like to see wtmp only use IP addresses, never hostnames.
I would prefer to have that be an installation-selectable option, at
least.
>Spoofed names are fairly easy to arrange; with IP filtering on border
>routers,
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, N wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I don't use the FreeBSD patched version, as I use the version with the
> > KerberosIV patches (unfortunately the FreeBSD port doesn't do that, but I
> > don't have time just now to make it do that :-). It seems to put the IP
> > address into the wtmp corr
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Brian Somers wrote:
> [.]
> > I got sick of seing "invalid hostname" in my wtmps a while ago on my 2.x
> > machines. That is an exceptionally useless piece of behavior, if you ask
> > me. Sshd writes out IPs and I find that to be much more consistent (and
> > useful).
>
[.]
> I got sick of seing "invalid hostname" in my wtmps a while ago on my 2.x
> machines. That is an exceptionally useless piece of behavior, if you ask
> me. Sshd writes out IPs and I find that to be much more consistent (and
> useful).
Sshd gets it wrong though. It gets the full hostname
Robert Watson writes:
> I'd actually like to see wtmp only use IP addresses, never hostnames.
> Spoofed names are fairly easy to arrange; with IP filtering on border
> routers, spoofed IPs are harder
> This of course sticks you with the task of DNS
> lookups when viewing wtmp, when you may a
> For some years I have been using patched utilities under SunOS to show
> full host names in the output from the 'who', 'finger', and 'last'
> commands. (Traditional UNIXes truncate host names to about 16
> characters.)
>
> I have been thinking of patching FreeBSD programs to do the same, but
>
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Rahul Dhesi wrote:
> For some years I have been using patched utilities under SunOS to show
> full host names in the output from the 'who', 'finger', and 'last'
> commands. (Traditional UNIXes truncate host names to about 16
> characters.)
>
> I have been thinking of patchin
:For some years I have been using patched utilities under SunOS to show
:full host names in the output from the 'who', 'finger', and 'last'
:commands. (Traditional UNIXes truncate host names to about 16
:characters.)
:
:I have been thinking of patching FreeBSD programs to do the same, but
:since
