Bug#922945: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#922945: /var/log/lastlog is a 110 TByte sparse file, seriously affecting backup

2021-04-19 Thread Sam Morris
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 01:30:36PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream > > Hi Sam, > > Sam Morris ezt írta (időpont: 2021. ápr. 13., K, 19:45): > > > > On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 15:26 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > This will then

Bug#922945: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#922945: /var/log/lastlog is a 110 TByte sparse file, seriously affecting backup

2021-04-16 Thread Bálint Réczey
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream Hi Sam, Sam Morris ezt írta (időpont: 2021. ápr. 13., K, 19:45): > > On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 15:26 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > This will then silently hide login failures from userids larger than > > this ID? Given the orig

Bug#922945: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#922945: /var/log/lastlog is a 110 TByte sparse file, seriously affecting backup

2021-04-13 Thread Sam Morris
On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 15:26 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > This will then silently hide login failures from userids larger than > this ID? Given the original submitter has a user with uid 37940, > why whould this not be logged? > > If they didn't want those uids to be used, maybe dont assi

Bug#922945: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#922945: /var/log/lastlog is a 110 TByte sparse file, seriously affecting backup

2021-04-13 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Sam Morris [210413 14:06]: > So how about setting LASTLOG_UID_MAX to either 6 or 65536 depending > on whether we want failed logins by 'nobody' to appear in lastlog(8) or > not? This will then silently hide login failures from userids larger than this ID? Given the original submitter has a

Bug#922945: /var/log/lastlog is a 110 TByte sparse file, seriously affecting backup

2021-04-13 Thread Sam Morris
Package: login Followup-For: Bug #922945 X-Debbugs-Cc: s...@robots.org.uk Control: affects -1 libpam-modules Control: tag -1 patch There is a hint as to what's going on in login.defs(5). LASTLOG_UID_MAX (number) Highest user ID number for which the lastlog entries should be upda

Bug#922945: /var/log/lastlog is a 110 TByte sparse file, seriously affecting backup

2019-02-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Package: login Version: 1:4.4-4.1 Somehow /var/log/lastlog grew to a 110 TByte sparse file: # ls -al /var/log/lastlog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 110784817228 Feb 22 08:37 /var/log/lastlog # du -h /var/log/lastlog 88K /var/log/lastlog This affects rsync performan