[HPADM] RE: [SUMMARY] System Node Name in "btmp" file

You know, you learn something new everyday. 
I stumbled onto the answer when I was talking to the person who owns the PC.  The were using Xonnet, a X emulation software package, to XDMP into the server and mis-typed his password.  What I thought was a shop floor PC was actually not.
Anyway, I was able to duplicate the situation by using Xonnet to XDMP to the server and get a CDE login screen.  I mis-typed my password and my laptop's system name appeared in the "btmp" file as well.
 
Thanks
 

Dale A. Whittemore
Senior Unix System Administrator
Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems
Denver, Colorado


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Subject: [HPADM] System Node Name in "btmp" file

A bit of unusualness here,  well I haven't see it before. 
When doing a 'lastb' command on and 11.0 system, for the first time, an actual
system's node name showed up in the device field:
 
Login Name             Device                  Date
SDFMD16           <node name>      Wed Nov 30 08:14    
 
<node name> = system's node name.
The system in this case is a walkup PC on a factory floor used for inputting shop
floor data via a barcode reader into an MRP application.
 
Has anyone seen this before and is it accepted or is it not supposed to happen?
Normally I see a "pts/t-something" or "remshd"  in the device field.
 
Thanks
 

Dale A. Whittemore
Senior Unix System Administrator
Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems
Denver, Colorado