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Description of problem: For every successful GNOME login, /usr/bin/lastb displays an entry although it should only display bad (= failed) login attempts. # lastb|head -2 misc tty7 :0 Thu Jul 14 12:08 - 12:08 (00:00) misc tty1 :0 Thu Jul 14 08:04 - 08:04 (00:00) compared with: # last|head -7 misc pts/0 :0 Thu Jul 14 12:08 still logged in misc tty7 :0 Thu Jul 14 12:08 still logged in misc pts/0 :0 Thu Jul 14 12:04 - 12:08 (00:03) misc pts/0 :0 Thu Jul 14 11:02 - 11:02 (00:00) misc pts/0 :0 Thu Jul 14 08:54 - 08:54 (00:00) misc tty1 :0 Thu Jul 14 08:04 - 12:08 (04:03) reboot system boot 2.6.38.8-35.fc15 Thu Jul 14 08:03 - 12:14 (04:10) and: # last -f /var/log/btmp|head -2 misc tty7 :0 Thu Jul 14 12:08 gone - no logout misc tty1 :0 Thu Jul 14 08:04 gone - no logout Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -qf /usr/bin/lastb sysvinit-tools-2.88-3.dsf.fc15.x86_64
Seems to be specific to X/GNOME logins. Successful logins at the virtual console are not displayed, but failed local logins are, e.g. testuser tty2 Thu Jul 14 12:22 - 12:22 (00:00)
I'm not sute I understand where is the problem. "Lastb is the same as last, except that by default it shows a log of the file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts." according to #c0, lastb output is same as last -f /var/log/btmp so the problem is in tool writing to /var/log/btmp which is probably gdm in this case.
Thanks for the prompt answer! If you think that lastb parses /var/log/btmp correctly, then let's reassign this to "gdm": $ strings gdm-simple-slave |grep btmp /var/log/btmp Writing btmp failed session attempt record to /var/log/btmp $ strings gdm-product-slave |grep btmp /var/log/btmp Writing btmp failed session attempt record to /var/log/btmp
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