new utmp scheme

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:05 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> 
> currently, samba (3.0.9) creates utmp entries with "smb/#" as tty line, where 
> # is a sequential number unique to Samba. I 
> 
> I wrote a patch that changes this behavior to follow that of (the 
> long-forgotten) wu-ftpd, which uses "ftp#", where # is the _PID_.
> So the patch uses "smb#" (#=PID), which simplifies the session id handling 
> code (w.r.t. utmp) a lot, and is also of more use to me than "smb/id".
> 
> Patch is at http://linux01.org/~jengelh/samba_AS-utmp4.diff
> Opinions are welcome.

You may have many more than one login per smbd process.  That is why
when utmp is not in use, we use /dev/smb/<pid>/<vuid> as the 'terminal'.
However, the utmp code requires the small, well-behaved number, and so
this is what we have.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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