Uniquely identifying a user: is it possible?

[Greg Comeau]

In article <25730 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>  ===>	Is there a way to 100% positively, absolutely, unequivocally,   <===
>  ===>	unerringly identify the current login user's /etc/utmp session  <===
>  ===>	record under ALL conditions of su'iness and output redirection  <===
>  ===>	and multiple simultaneous logins?                               <===

It appears you wanted to do more than what is stores in u/w/tmp anyway,
so you nest bet may be to forget that file and create whatever you need
tocreate via /etc/profile (which will only therefore catch interactive
logins and not stuff like uucp which can be handled in another way)
as well as front-ending or re-writing su for the audits you need.
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