Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:10:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd "PrintLastLog yes" In-Reply-To: <20030908165729.GL1859@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <99AE13FA0F1F824AA6D299741FE6C82F8EC6@dcp1.home.fermin.ch> <5.1.0.14.0.20030907142823.0468a3d8@127.0.0.1> <20030908110159.A25263@ns1.iocc.com> <20030908160746.GC7908@redhat.com> <20030908165729.GL1859@cygbert.vinschen.de> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:23:53PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > That's why I > > suggested adding this into "ssh-host-config" (which will presumably be run > > by new users to set up sshd) instead. Another advantage of > > "ssh-host-config" is that it's interactive (whereas postinstall scripts > > aren't, or shouldn't be). > > ssh isn't exclusiv user or owner of /var/log/lastlog. It's a system > file, not an application specific file. > > Corinna I understand that. What I was suggesting was that permissions only get modified in application-specific config scripts that are either interactive and/or are explicitly invoked by the user -- ssh was just an example (another one is iu-config). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/