On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:45, Colin Percival wrote: > As anyone who reads cvs-all (or Mark Johnston's wonderful > summaries thereof) will know, I recently added logging into > nologin(8): Instead of simply printing an error message, it > now (via syslog) records the refused login attempt. > For security reasons, nologin(8) must be statically linked; > as a result, adding logging has increased the binary size by > slightly over 100K (on i386). For historical reasons (which > is to say, "nobody seems to know why"), nologin is located in > /sbin, which means that this has a non-trivial effect upon > the space used on the root partition. Some people are unhappy > about this. > I can see a number of possible options; I'd like to hear > opinions on which would be the best. > How about: 7: Use 'system("logger ...") to log the failed login?Received on Mon Feb 23 2004 - 10:59:01 UTC
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