deceptive mail

aeb at turing.UUCP aeb at turing.UUCP
Tue Nov 13 11:17:41 AEST 1984


> I tend to like my mail coming from whomever the person is currently, not who
> they logged in as!

It is even worse: if you are working at a terminal, somebody comes along
and in order to show you something logs in recursively: (login x)
then after his login process has finished your identity will be reported
as x by programs like who and routines like getlogin().
-- 
      Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!aeb



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