On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:01:55 -0800 Qrux <[email protected]> wrote: > After installing OpenSSH, I'm seeing errors like this: > > sshd[1226]: Excess permission or bad ownership on file /var/log/btmp > > Quick google turns up: > > https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1825 > > TL;DR - I think we ought to change the last few lines from this: > > touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp} > chgrp -v utmp /var/run/utmp /var/log/lastlog > chmod -v 664 /var/run/utmp /var/log/lastlog > > to this: > > touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp} > chgrp -v utmp /var/run/utmp /var/log/{lastlog,btmp} > chmod -v 664 /var/run/utmp /var/log/lastlog > chmod -v 0600 /var/log/btmp > > Does anyone see an issue with changing the group and perms of /var/log/btmp > to fit SSH's expectations?
I agree, if we create /var/log/btmp it should be chmod 600, but I wonder, do we need it? Does anything use it? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
