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From: Nils Holland <nhg@tisys.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PAM and utmp
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:54:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120218075413.GA12501@eee1215n.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120217213735.GA3952@eee1215n.fritz.box>

On 22:37 Fri 17 Feb     , Nils Holland wrote:

> I have the strong feeling that my ~x86 Gentoo box no longer seems to
> record "local" logins into /var/run/utmp. When I use screen or login via
> ssh, everything works fine, but I can do millions of local, non-X11
> plain vanilla terminal logins without ever seeing anything when running
> "who" or "w". And I have the feeling that this used to work in the past.

Replying to myself here, but...:

Obviously, /bin/login is responsible for handling utmp entries even when
PAM is in used, and the upstream maintainer disabled this in the
shadow-4.1.5 release (I could verify that it worked in shadow-4.1.4.3).
The issue seems to be known already, however, and should be fixed soon,
as can be seen at:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659957

That's enough for me to know then, I'll just wait for a new release of
"shadow", which will make it work again. I still thought I'd post this
follow-up here, in case anyone else stumbles over this issue. ;-)

Greetings,
Nils


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      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-18  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-17 21:37 [gentoo-user] PAM and utmp Nils Holland
2012-02-18  7:54 ` Nils Holland [this message]

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