Bug 82009

Summary:	sys-libs/utempter description says writing utmp records needs root access
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andreas Kling <keso>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	x11
Priority:	High	Keywords:	Inclusion
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andreas Kling 2005-02-14 09:53:42 UTC

The description for sys-libs/utempter reads "App that allows non-privileged apps to write utmp (login) info, which needs root access", which isn't really true.

Writing utmp records doesn't require root access, just write access to /var/run/utmp, which is accomplished in Gentoo by having /var/run/utmp chgrp'ed to 'utmp' and /usr/sbin/utempter setgid 'utmp'

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-15 05:41:59 UTC

fixed, thanks!