Re: Setting Up btmp

1997-04-27 Thread Paul Serice
> I don't know anything about why the Debian crew decided to remove > btmp, but from my own experience a lot of people fumbles when they > log in, and as a result they type inn the password instead of the > username. > > Thus you can often find both the account-name and the password if, > you do "l

Re: Setting Up btmp

1997-04-26 Thread Vebjorn Forsmo
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've since deleted /var/log/btmp to get back to the Debian default. > Knowing nothing about anything, I was wondering if someone could fill > me in on why Debian defaults to no btmp. I don't know anything about why the Debian crew decided to remove btm

Setting Up btmp

1997-04-26 Thread Paul Serice
There was another question in the list regarding logging, and it got me to wondering about my setup. When I did "lastb", I got a message about /var/log/btmp not existing: "Perhaps this file was removed by the operator to prevent logging lastb info." So all I did was drop down to /var/log and "tou