Renaming policy

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Dec 13 04:49:29 CST 2004


On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:18:42AM +0100, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:

>  I've patched a last command for a sysadmin at my work. He wanted to block
> last command, but our boss wanted it to stay, because users use it. He ask
> me to change code, so he could write /etc/last.cnf with a list of users
> that last will ignore. No big deal.

I'm not sure exactly what you've done here, but if you've done what I guess
you have, I think that a simpler and more correct approach is to change the
permissions on /var/log/wtmp.

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 - mdz



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