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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:24:26 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: possible startup scripts bug ?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:21:42PM +0300, Oleg Lukashin wrote:
> 	  There is a little problem in owl-1.0release. If /var/log/lastlog
> file deleted, there is no way to logon to system:
> /etc/pam.d/login :
> ...
> session	required	/lib/security/pam_lastlog.so nowtmp
> ...
> 
> I think that checking this in startup scripts should be added

This is not strictly a bug (noone is supposed to delete that file,
it's not a regular log file which may be rotated but rather a table
with entries per-UID).

But I've added that piece to rc.sysinit in Owl-current, please test.

-- 
/sd

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