Hi,
I'm curious, why we don't create a /var/log/faillog file when we create the other log files for shadow? I've been using it on my own system for quite a while and it seems to work fine with login from shadow.
I'm also wondering if I should be making my faillog writable by the utmp group. I browsed through the archives a bit but I couldn't find any rational for why some log files are chgrp'ed while others are not.
On my own system the only other file that belongs to the utmp group is /usr/libexec/gnome-pty-helper. (vte complains duing make install if utmp group isn't present) from what I've read in other places on the web, it seems like in order to use the utmp group, executables which expect to be able to write to utmp, etc., need to be setgid utmp, but we never explicitly modify any programs to make use of this in LFS or BLFS.
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