Getting the status of a Portmaster

Scott Drassinower (scottd@cloud9.net)
Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:24:12 -0400 (EDT)

Is there any possibility of having either another login added to
the Portmaster besides !root, that might just run 'show sessions' and then
quit? Running pmwho is nice, but it's annoying to see admin logins listed
in the authlog every time someone runs pmwho, especially if one has
several Portmasters. Perhaps a user called !status or something similar,
that could optionally be password protected, and that wouldn't appear in
the logs.

Another idea might be to have RADIUS create something like a utmp
file for each Portmaster, which could show similar results, or perhaps a
finger daemon running on the Portmaster that would just run 'show sessions'.

After dealing with Annexes for so long, it's annoying to not be
able to do a simple 'finger @ts.whatever' and not get a list of who is on,
who is idle, what they're doing, etc.

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