On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:53:25 -0800 Qrux <[email protected]> wrote: > "Empirical" testing shows that login writes to btmp. I infer, from that > description given at TLDP, that everything that logs a bad-login attempt > (e.g., login) ought to be writing to this file. It is NOT an SSH-specific > thing.
You appear to be wrong. login writes to /var/log/wtmp, not /var/login/btmp. If I try to login as root (on tty1) and enter the wrong password nothing gets written to /var/login/btmp. Maybe login _should_ be writing the failed login attempt to /var/log/btmp, maybe login is broken? The only application on my system that writes to /var/login/btmp is ssh, so I suggest that we move creating this file to the ssh page in BLFS. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
