Well, I was the one who turned that off, but I think we should keep this bug open because the situation has changed. /var/log/btmp was mode 0664 in Debian when I made that change. Now, in Ubuntu (and possibly in Debian, I haven't checked), it's mode 0660. This suggests to me that we could re-enable the feature and just check for non-world-readability.
status triaged ** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743858 Title: sshd not appending to /var/log/btmp -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs