COMMAND

    rlogind(8)

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    System V Revision 4

PROBLEM

    If I  rlogin in  to a  machine, and  logout, and  then start a new
    shelltool on  the machine,  then "who  am i"  within the shelltool
    will say  that I'am  the person  who rlogin'ed.  Also, anything  I
    print (using lpr, at  leat) will say the  print job came from  the
    person who rlogin'ed. I'am no  expert in SVR4 utmp entries,  but I
    think the  problem is  that rlogind  is changing  the type  of the
    utmp  entry  for  the  process  to DEAD_PROCESS, while leaving the
    other attributes alone.  Other programs don't seem to be  checking
    the type field before  interpreting the utmp entry.  While reading
    some  accounting  documentation  it  seemed  to  imply  that   the
    DEAD_PROCESS   entries   were   only   to   handle   some  special
    accounting situation.