Re: Bug#1068017: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog
* Jun MO <royclark086@gmail.com> [240530 19:09]:
> On Thu, 30 May 2024 13:18:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > I agree, this may be useful. Unfortunately, the current status is
> > that one cannot have both: installing wtmpdb forces the upgrade of
> > util-linux to 2.40.1-3 (at least), where "last" is no longer installed.
>
> Thanks for the change about version 2.40.1-3 of the util-linux package.
> This is indeed mentioned in the NEWS.Debian from the 2.40.1-3 util-linux
> package, and the NEWS.Debian also suggests installing wtmpdb. But
> the last(1) from wtmpdb can not read /var/log/wtmp:
>
> $ last -f /var/log/wtmp
> wtmpdb_read_all: SQL error: file is not a database
>
> And if I understood correctly, wtmpdb require program use PAM to update
> wtmpdb, thus program not use PAM will still write /var/log/wtmp.
Yes. It appears it is unclear if programs that are not
login-equivalents should write to wtmp in the first place.
wtmpdb upstream leans - in my vague reading - towards "no".
Chris
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