Bug 70239

Summary:	netkit-talkd patch to manage talk requests by the user through an easy config file
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	giorgio <giorgio>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Guy Martin (RETIRED) <gmsoft>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	greg_g
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch for netkit-ntalk-0.17/talkd/announce.c

Description giorgio 2004-11-06 03:11:54 UTC

I've developed this small patch to allow the user to manage talk requests.
The configuration file should be named ~/.talkrc and accepts only three entries:

DEFAULT: defines the default behaviour.
DEFAULT 1   accept talks by default
DEFAULT 0   refuse talks by default

ALLOWED: a list of allowed users which override DEFAULT value
ALLOWED john jack tom

DENIED: a list of denied users which override DEFAULT value
DENIED hugo geena bill

Obviosly root user is not affected by ~/.talkrc filter
talkd will works as usual if no ~/.talkrc is present
Each talk request/refuse is logged in the file ~/.talk.log with this format:

request: user@linuxbox at Sat Nov  6 11:19:12 2004

Reproducible: Always
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You can download the patch file from:
http://mosquito.scumm.it/dloads/announce.c.patch.gz

Comment 1 giorgio 2004-11-06 03:13:44 UTC

Created attachment 43394 [details, diff]
patch for netkit-ntalk-0.17/talkd/announce.c

Comment 2 Guy Martin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-12 09:22:51 UTC

Please submit enhancement upstream.