Where is login location info kept?

[John Gordon]

psm at manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh) writes:

>On BSD Unix, finger will report where someone is logged in from:

>Login    Name        TTY Idle    When     Where
>me     John Smith     p1        Sat 12:34  snoopy
>					   ^^^^^^^
>                 Where does it get this information?

	I believe that this info is kept in a couple of system files, 
"utmp" and "wtmp".  Try doing a man on them.


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