Andrew Benton wrote: > 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.
I've already fixed the problem. Moving it is more trouble than it's worth. Besides, there may be other packages that use it, e.g. PAM, but I don't know for sure. Besides btmp goes with wtmp and utmp which are used. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
