Re: Setting Up btmp
> I don't know anything about why the Debian crew decided to remove
> btmp, but from my own experience a lot of people fumbles when they
> log in, and as a result they type inn the password instead of the
> username.
>
> Thus you can often find both the account-name and the password if,
> you do "lastb".
That makes a lot of sense. I know I've done that a time or two.
>From my experimentation though, I think Debian's btmp only logs a
failed user as "UNKNOWN" instead of by what he or she typed as their
login. I guess that's not very useful information.
Paul Serice
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