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 -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) Our Gentoo mirror: http://rush.tisys.org/ (IPv4 + IPv6) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998
