Re: /bin/login and utmp updates

[Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>]

Bob,

On 29/05/2012, at 4:54 PM, Bob Tracy wrote:
> I mentioned somewhat off-handedly that "utmp" on my alpha wasn't  
> getting
> updated properly for console login sessions (tty1, tty2, etc.).  The
> issue seems to be the way that the "login" package gets built.  For  
> the
> official alpha packages up through 1:4.1.5-1 at least, "/bin/login"  
> does
> NOT update the utmp file with session information for console logins.

I see the latest src:shadow package (version 1:4.1.5.1-1) includes the  
following in the changelog:

* New upstream release:
- login: log into utmp(x) but not into wtmp (this is done by  
pam_lastlog). Log to utmp(x) was broken by the fix for #605329.  
Closes: 659957

So looks like it is fixed by the latest version which was built for  
Alpha a day or two ago and should've propagated to mirrors by now.

Cheers
Michael.