On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:17:24PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> When be talk about "xterm" and its capability to write utmp records:
> 
> wouldn't the right solution be to have a special purpose daemon listening
> on some socket in /var/run, where interested programs can send their log info
> to, and have things like xterm always run completely unpriviledged?

That can't work.  You can't run them "completely unprivileged" because you
can't let everyone write to utmp.

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