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Re: bad login tracking



On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:

> Note that this is a Bad Idea (to get the usernames or passwords)
> since it tends to 1) give you a list of the users' passwords and
> 2) give others a well-known place to look for them too.
> Any user can run lastb.

you can fix that with chmod o= /var/log/btmp*

-t

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