Bug 118855

Summary:	I can't see "Last login" message after logged via ssh
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marcin Zajaczkowski <mszpak>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	1	CC:	bart.martens
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Description Marcin Zajaczkowski 2004-03-21 18:31:05 UTC

Hi,

After install Fedora 1 on my server I can't see "Last login" message
after logged via ssh. In RH 7.3 there was no problem with this. I see
this message when log lacally.
In sshd_config there is PrintLastLogin Yes.

I've looked through mailing list, newsgroup and forums but without any
results.

Szpak


How reproducible:
Alwayes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log via ssh
2. Look at screen

Comment 1 Bart Martens 2004-03-22 06:17:42 UTC

openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19

Bug known upstream, see:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463

Workaround: chmod a+r /var/log/lastlog

The bug exists also on Debian sarge with ssh 3.6.1p2-12, but there the
lastlog file is already world readable, so the problem doesn't occur.

Comment 2 Michael Rodgers 2004-05-17 01:29:57 UTC

The file /var/log/lastlog by default seems to have 600 permissions
(-rw-------).  

The program finger consults this file to find the date/time of a 
user's last login (unless the user is currently logged in).  This 
means that, unless you give world read permission on this file, a 
second symptom will be that fingering any user not presently logged 
in will yield "Never logged in." 

(This took me a while to track down because I erroneously assumed 
finger just read /var/log/wtmp.)

--Mike