Re: [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
In article <cistron.19990608171206.A32535@soil.nl>,
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
>+ The files <tt>/var/run/utmp</tt>, <tt>/var/log/wtmp</tt> and
>+ <tt>/var/log/lastlog</tt> should be installed writeable by group
>+ utmp. Programs who need to modify those files should be installed
>+ install setgid utmp.</p></sect>
/var/run/utmp is created by init at bootup, and so in the next init version
there'll be a check to see if the utmp group is present in /etc/group
and if so the permissions on /var/run/utmp will be 664 group utmp.
But /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/lastlog don't belong to a package - how
do we make sure the permissions on those files get changed? Should
base-files take care of that ?
Mike.
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