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Re: wtmp non readable?



Am Freitag,  1. März 2002 19:45 schrieb Andrew Tsen:
> It's read by 'last' and 'finger' I believe.
> It's up to you if you want other users on your system to finger someone or
> to see the last login for certain user.
>
> At certain company, managers like to see when a certain employee logins.
> It will be useful for them that way.
>

> > Does anyone know whether wtmp has to be readable for world?


I was not sure whether last and finger were the only programs that read wtmp.
So there are not any vital programs that must have read access to wtmp as a 
normal user?

Greetings,
 Matthias



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