On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 07:10, Udo Grabowski (IMKASF) <[email protected]> wrote: > Diving into ttymon and login, which should handle that correctly, > but somehow don't. Stumbled across /var/adm/utmpx in the man page > ... and then it clicked: Had removed world readability for [uw]tmpx* > to comply with the EU GDPR regulations (non-observability of user > activity), and that somehow stops login and ttymon to set the > console_user ownership correctly ... so GDPR blocks users from viewing > videos ...
I'm not immediately convinced the GDPR requires that last(1) not work on a UNIX system, but regardless: it seems like a not-unreasonable site policy for a security-sensitive installation. It would be worth filing an OS bug that describes the specifics. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
