[Pkg-freeradius-maintainers] Bug#1095490: util-linux: new optional package to interrogate utmp-format files

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 12:47:05PM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote:
> I appreciate that the utmp-capable tooling has been removed from default
> installations to avoid users being misled that they are appropriate for
> administering current systems since the move to wtmpdb. However, I don't think
> that is a reason why they should not be available in the archive at all.
> 
> I suspect there will be significant unsatisfied demand for tools in the next
> stable release that are capable of reading log files previously populated with
> information in utmp format.

I think this is misguided. trixie will be the release that underwent
a very painful t64 transition so all software in it is supposed to
continue working past year 2038. For the utmp format, this is AFAIK
not the case.

freeradius also needs to find a solution to write into a file format
that works longer. I imagine if freeradius could use pam, it could
just reuse the wtmpdb stuff.
Isn't there an sql backend available anyway?

Chris