openssh unix dev - Jun 2000 - patch for utmpx corruption for openssh-2.1.0p3.tar.gz

if openssh-2.1.0p3 exec in USE_UTMPX enabled environment (ie. solaris
8) then utmpx file update to utmp format.

--- ./bsd-login.c.org	Sat May 20 14:03:00 2000
+++ ./bsd-login.c	Thu Jun  8 01:33:43 2000
@@ -148,10 +148,11 @@
 			if (utp->ut_type == USER_PROCESS) {
 #ifdef USE_UTMPX
 				if ((fd = open(_PATH_UTMPX, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND, 0)) >= 0) {
+					(void)write(fd, utx, sizeof(struct utmpx));
 #else /* USE_UTMPX */
 				if ((fd = open(_PATH_UTMP, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND, 0)) >= 0) {
-#endif /* USE_UTMPX */
 					(void)write(fd, utp, sizeof(struct utmp));
+#endif /* USE_UTMPX */
 					(void)close(fd);
 				}
 			} else {

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Kenji Miyake wrote:
>  if openssh-2.1.0p3 exec in USE_UTMPX enabled environment (ie. solaris
> 8) then utmpx file update to utmp format.
 
Can you give this release a try:

http://www.mindrot.org/misc/junk/openssh-2.1.1p1-TEST-2000060700.tar.gz

It contains substantially improved login code.

-d

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No problems so far on a handful of 2.6 boxen.  I take it this should also 
fix the utmp curruption reported by Lukas Karrer?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=95959541620508&w=2 
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Kenji Miyake wrote:
> 
> >  if openssh-2.1.0p3 exec in USE_UTMPX enabled environment (ie. solaris
> > 8) then utmpx file update to utmp format.
>  
> Can you give this release a try:
> 
> http://www.mindrot.org/misc/junk/openssh-2.1.1p1-TEST-2000060700.tar.gz
> 
> It contains substantially improved login code.
> 
> -d
> 
> -- 
> | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan
Cox
> | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/
> | Email: djm at mindrot.org (home) -or- djm at ibs.com.au (work)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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