[Bug 2084854] Re: last and lastb missing in 24.10

[Andrew Bower]

Hi Gordon,

> Happy to do that if they exist, but I haven't found such a log.

Bear with me because I'm not currently an Ubuntu user and don't use
systemd on most systems, but there must surely be an easy way with
journalctl? Hopefully a developer will answer on your above question!

What should work in any case is to install rsyslogd and then I would
expect /var/log/auth.log to start getting populated with failed login
attempts (as it is on my systems) - that might not be so convenient for
you to parse but it should at least get the data!

I wonder if there is a pam plugin which is tailored to tracking
authentication attempts?

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Title:
  last and lastb missing in 24.10

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The last and lastb commands have disappeared from util-linux at 24.10!

  This is odd, as the binaries from 24.04 actually run on 24.10, so the
  data is clearly still being collected and in the same format.

  Ubuntu: 24.10 (Oracular Oriole).

  Package: util-linux
  Version: 2.40.2-1ubuntu1

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