On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:44:21PM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > [2019-04-14 13:35] Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn > <cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com> > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > > > > Definitely. But default one is from bin:util-linux. > > > > On my sid/unstable: > > > > # dpkg -S /bin/login > > login: /bin/login > > You are right, it is from src:shadow. > > > > So I question, how much of this code is actually necessary: > > > > > > * group 'utmp' exists on bare system, so conditional is not needed. > > > * if /var/run/utmp is missing, nothing bad seems to happen, so does > > > this code is needed at all? > > > > > > Opinions? > > > > IMO, less code is better. I didn't loog at the source. But I can > > see this: > > > > # strings /bin/login | egrep 'utmp|faillog|/' > > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 > > /usr/share/locale > > No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh" > > [...] > > I took a look at source. It seems that this error may only happen if UID != 0. > I'd better add login maintainers into thread. > > Dear login maintainers, currently we have following core executed during > boot: > > # Create /var/run/utmp so we can login. > true > /var/run/utmp > if grep -q ^utmp: /etc/group > then > chmod 664 /var/run/utmp > chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp > fi > > It seems that system boots and works just fine without it. Are there any > subtle reasons to keep creating /var/run/utmp in initscripts?
Hi, Is the above pseudocode? If not, where is that code precisely? Near as I can tell, if you do not create it, it will never exist, and pututent entries will not be saved. > > > PS. Cristian, it seems I did not enough research prior asking you to > > > make patch and caused labour wasted. I am sorry. > > > > No worries. Still, I would be cautious. That redirection (with or > > without a command prefix) is still questionable, as it _truncates_ the > > file (as opposed to just touching it). > > It is under /var/run, which is tmpfs, so it is okay. > -- > Note, that I send and fetch email in batch, once every 24 hours. > If matter is urgent, try https://t.me/kaction > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list > pkg-shadow-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel
