new utmp scheme

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:14 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >You may have many more than one login per smbd process.  That is why
> 
> Does opening multiple network connections (e.g. Y: => home, Z: => /opt) open 
> one or more logins?

Terminal server is the nasty case, but you will also get this happening
on normal workstations with RunAs.  

> >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.
> 
> Well, I did not have any problems so far with "smb#pid#". And I do not think 
> that smb-pid-terminal number is used outside that function. Everywhere else, 
> smb still uses smb/sessid afaics.

Yes, it is only used in utmp.

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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