package Sys::Utmp::Utent; =head1 NAME Sys::Utmp::Utent - represent a single utmp entry =head1 SYNOPSIS use Sys::Utmp; my $utmp = Sys::Utmp->new(); while ( my $utent = $utmp->getutent() ) { if ( $utent->user_process ) { print $utent->ut_user,"\n"; } } $utmp->endutent; =head1 DESCRIPTION As described in the L documentation the getutent method returns an object of the type Sys::Utmp::Utent which provides methods for accessing the fields in the utmp record. There are also methods for determining the type of the record. The access methods relate to the common names for the members of the C struct utent - those provided are the superset from the Gnu implementation and may not be available on all systems: where they are not they will return the empty string. =over 4 =item ut_user Returns the use this record was created for if this is a record for a user process. Some systems may return other information depending on the record type. If no user was set this will be the empty string. If tainting is switched on with the '-T' switch to perl then this will be 'tainted' as it is possible that the user name came from an untrusted source. =item ut_id The identifier for this record - it might be the inittab tag or some other system dependent value. =item ut_line For user process records this will be the name of the terminalor line that the user is connected on. =item ut_pid The process ID of the process that created this record. =item ut_type The type of the record this will have a value corresponding to one of the constants (not all of these may be available on all systems and there may well be others which should be described in the getutent manpage or in /usr/include/utmp.h ) : =over 2 =item ACCOUNTING - record was created for system accounting purposes. =item BOOT_TIME - the record was created at boot time. =item DEAD_PROCESS - The process that created this record has terminated. =item EMPTY - record probably contains no other useful information. =item INIT_PROCESS - this is a record for process created by init. =item LOGIN_PROCESS - this record was created for a login process (e.g. getty). =item NEW_TIME - record created when the system time has been set. =item OLD_TIME - record recording the old tme when the system time has been set. =item RUN_LVL - records the time at which the current run level was started. =item USER_PROCESS - record created for a user process (e.g. a login ) =back for convenience Sys::Utmp::Utent provides methods which are lower case versions of the constant names which return true if the record is of that type. =item ut_host On systems which support this the method will return the hostname of the host for which the process that created the record was started - for example for a telnet login. If taint checking has been turned on (with the -T switch to perl ) then this value will be tainted as it is possible that a remote user will be in control of the DNS for the machine they have logged in from. ( see L for more on tainting ) =item ut_time The time in epoch seconds wt which the record was created. =back =cut use strict; use warnings; use Carp; require Exporter; use vars qw( @methods %meth2index %const2meth $AUTOLOAD @ISA @EXPORT ); @ISA = qw(Exporter); BEGIN { @methods = qw( ut_user ut_id ut_line ut_pid ut_type ut_host ut_time ); @meth2index{@methods} = ( 0 .. $#methods ); no strict 'refs'; foreach my $sub ( @methods ) { my $usub = uc $sub; *{$usub} = sub { return $meth2index{$sub} }; push @EXPORT, $usub; } use strict 'refs'; $const2meth{lc $_ } = $_ foreach @Sys::Utmp::constants; } sub AUTOLOAD { my ( $self ) = @_; return if ( $AUTOLOAD =~ /DESTROY/ ); (my $methname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://; { no strict 'refs'; if ( exists $meth2index{$methname} ) { *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub { my ($self) = @_; return $self->[$meth2index{$methname}]; }; } elsif ( exists $const2meth{$methname}) { *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub { my ( $self ) = @_; return $self->ut_type == &{"Sys::Utmp::$const2meth{$methname}"}; }; } else { croak "$methname not defined" unless exists $meth2index{$methname}; } goto &{$AUTOLOAD}; } } 1; __END__ =head1 BUGS Probably. This module has been tested on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD ,SCO Openserver and SCO UnixWare and found to work on those platforms. If you have difficulty building the module or it doesnt behave as expected then please contact the author including if appropriate your /usr/include/utmp.h =head1 AUTHOR Jonathan Stowe, Ejns@gellyfish.co.ukE =head1 LICENCE This Software is Copyright Jonathan Stowe 2001-2013 This Software is published as-is with no warranty express or implied. This is free software and can be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 SEE ALSO L. L =cut