Subject: Re: bin/32903: utmp remains empty
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/25/2006 17:10:06
The following reply was made to PR bin/32903; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/32903: utmp remains empty
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:09:23 -0500
On Feb 25, 9:05am, i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk (i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/32903: utmp remains empty
| it still hasn't been addressed as to why
| group ownership of utmp files would matter.
| getty/login run as root, and can write to
| any file they want to. sshd writes to
| utmp properly - so this is further
| evidence that it is not a ownership problem.
If you don't have pam turned on for ssh (usepam yes in sshd_config) then
the two programs use different mechanisms to write to the utmp file.
christos