Renaming policy

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:00:10PM +0100, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 02:49:29 -0800
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > change the permissions on /var/log/wtmp.
> 
>  Maybe it would be, but some users requested to be excluded from ,,last''
> command. Sure, we could move them into groups, but, OTOH, anyome can modify
> it in thier webpanel. Most of our configs are regenerated from SQL
> database, so droping few lines with a list of users that should be skipped
> by last is mutch easier. 
> 
>  But I'm not a sysadmin. :-) I'm just doing what I've been told. ;-)

Modifying the /usr/bin/last program doesn't prevent users from accessing the
data.  Consider that they could simply keep their own copy of the unmodified
program.

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 - mdz