[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#659957: login: login at console no longer updates utmp

[Johan Kullstam]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.1.5-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I am logging in at the console and get no entry in utmp.  "who" and "w"
produce no output.  Using "who -a", I see that the tty is still
associated with the name "LOGIN".  "logname" at the console produces
"LOGIN" when on.

So, if I log into console number 2, I get this

jk at emmy:~$ tty
/dev/tty2
jk at emmy:~$ logname
LOGIN
jk at emmy:~$ who
jk at emmy:~$ w
 05:16:29 up 7 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.09, 0.25, 0.14
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
jk at emmy:~$ who -a
                        2012-02-15 05:09               559 id=si    term=0 exit=0
           system boot  2012-02-15 05:09
           run-level 2  2012-02-15 05:09                   last=S
                        2012-02-15 05:09              1725 id=l2    term=0 exit=0
LOGIN      tty1         2012-02-15 05:09              2169 id=1
LOGIN      tty5         2012-02-15 05:09              2173 id=5
LOGIN      tty4         2012-02-15 05:09              2172 id=4
LOGIN      tty6         2012-02-15 05:09              2174 id=6
LOGIN      tty2         2012-02-15 05:09              2170 id=2
LOGIN      tty3         2012-02-15 05:09              2171 id=3


This is probably related to fixing "#605329  [login] login on console
creates duplicate wtmp entry"

While pam_logout writes to wtmp on log-OUT, it, as far as I can tell,
does not write to utmp when you log IN.  Maybe I am doing it wrong,
please advise.

This breaks some other software, e.g., sawfish which produces a
directory /tmp/.sawfish-LOGIN instead of /tmp/.sawfish-jk. The
sawfish-pager breaks by looking for the latter.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6           2.13-26
ii  libpam-modules  1.1.3-7
ii  libpam-runtime  1.1.3-7
ii  libpam0g        1.1.3-7

login recommends no packages.

login suggests no packages.

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