Re: [bug-inetutils] On r-commands and iruserok.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   updating myself on this matter.  I have a patch set which presently

     1) Falls back to ruserok/inet_ntoa if iruserok is not present.

     2) Checks for __check_rhosts_file and make dependencies on it visible.
        They were implicit until no, but this variable is not universally
        present, so it must be detected.

   At the moment I am struggling to get the format string right for rlogind
   when it calls login(1) on Solaris. The available string is outdated, but
   is is hard to get it right. On Solaris rshd functions properly, but rlogind
   produces an immediate logout until I can find the correct string.

What about a different approach, can we skip the this step or doing it
differently?  I.e., why do we call login?  Can we do the same using
normal library calls?

I'm heading of for the train up to Stockholm today, and was planning
on making the release on the train before new year.  If there is
something that must must must get into this release, please say and
push the fix.

One release per year is something we must be able to do, and damned be
I if I don't do one this year!