Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
#1550 closed defect (fixed)
Shadow update or textual update needed
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | TESTING |
| Severity: | trivial | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
The following paragraph simply does not read well:
"Shadow fails to update the time of last login as noted by lastlog when logging into a regular console. The Port (tty) column does get updated. Remote logins and xterm logins seem to not be broken; just console. The following patch properly fixes this issue:"
Suggested:
The first sentence is fine other than perhaps s/noted/reported/
The Port (tty) column is properly updated, however. Remote logins and xterm logins don't seem to exhibit this behavior, it is only evident on logins from the console.
The last sentence is fine.
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 19 years ago
comment:2 by , 19 years ago
You can move to 4.0.9, however, there's BLFS work involved with this as well. Update the Shadow package and lots of testing with PAM and cracklib.
comment:3 by , 19 years ago
r5894 was what upgraded to the latest shadow version. If someone could merge that to testing, that'd be great.
Randy, I've been running shadow-4.0.9 with PAM+Cracklib for a while now, without any issues. Having said that, I don't have anything that actually uses PAM installed, so my testing is likely of little use :(
comment:4 by , 19 years ago
I'm doing a build with shadow-4.0.9. If all seems to go well, I'll update testing.
comment:5 by , 19 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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comment:6 by , 19 years ago
| Summary: | Section 6.54.1 nitpick → Shadow update or textual update needed |
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Changing Summary so I can more easily distinguish what this is.
comment:7 by , 19 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
No issues found using 4.0.9. Lastlog works properly. No su wierdness detected. Upgraded in testing (r6111).
Thanks Randy. How about this slight alteration?
"Shadow fails to update the time of last login as reported by <command>lastlog</command> when logging into a regular console. The Port (tty) column is properly updated. Remote logins and xterm logins don't seem to exhibit this erroneous behavior, it is only evident on logins from the console. The following patch properly fixes this issue:"
I'm not sure on the neccesity of the third sentence at all though, it would appear to be duplicating the first and second sentences but just emphasising the 'local login' nature of the bug. Perhaps it would just be easier to upgrade shadow to 4.0.9 thus dropping the patch and the accompanying explanation?