Bug#67118: base system does not contain /var/log/btmp
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> writes:
> Actually I vaguely remember some documentation stating that it's probably
> a bad idea to have a btmp file. It would certainly be a place where password
> would be logged plaintest if a users enters a password instead of a
> username by accident.
Yeah, I don't see why we need it.
Laurent said:
> > > - it is probably better from a security point of view
Back up this claim with more facts.
> > > - logrotate tries to rotate it (see Bug#64043)
That's not really a concern of ours..
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