Accounting changes

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4627DD51.9020003 at aueb.gr>, Diomidis Spinellis writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20070419212253.L2913 at fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes:
>> 
>>>> 	__dev_t   ac_tty;		/* controlling tty */
>> 
>> This field is useless, nobody uses hardwired RS-232 terminals
>> anymore.
>> 
>> What we should do is add a systemcall or sysctl, so session creators
>> like getty, sshd and similar can install a session indentifying string
>> on the session, and then dump that in the accounting.
>> 
>> sshd would log IP+port and possibly also credential used for auth.
>> 
>
>Isn't this purpose mostly served by joining the accounting record with 
>wtmp on the ll_line field to obtain the IP address from the ll_host field?

The IP number alone is not a "session identifier", you want the ID
of the credential that gave access as well.


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