Reading the original /dev from an rlogin

[Tom Christiansen]

In article <1013 at sjfc.UUCP> kes3200 at sjfc.UUCP (Ken Staggers) writes:

|We have an assistants account where the assistants can rlogin to it.
|Sometimes there are 2-5 assistants rlogined to the account at one tine and 
|since the assistants account /dev will be p0, p1, p2, .... its difficult to
|tell which assistant is on which pseudo term.  I am writing an accounting
|program for the account, and I need to know how to determine this.  Are
|there C (or csh) functions that I can use to determine which assistant is
|on which pseudo term?

I strongly advise having a one-to-one correspondence between humans
and user names/ids.  Don't share accounts or uids.  Shared access
can be managed with groups.  Anything else makes for accounting
nightmares.  It also muddles up the waters with respect to security.

--tom
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