I confirm this bug. We use last to see who are connected and when they are connected. We need that for security reason. We have to keep one year of log in case of one of our users made an intrusion on some site. It's really not a low bug.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027805 Title: logins are not recorded in wtmp Status in Light Display Manager: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: After applying the fix for #870297, utmp records are updated correctly but wtmp is not: flashman ~ % ssh root@test-precise 'dpkg-query --show lightdm && last -n1' lightdm 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1 root pts/0 flashman Tue Jul 17 10:32 - 10:32 (00:00) wtmp begins Fri Jul 13 19:23:13 2012 'last' output here should show my graphical session as 'still logged in'. This should probably be fixed by stacking pam_lastlog for user sessions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1027805/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
