Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:01:46 +0700 From: "Anh Ky Huynh" <xkyanh@gmail.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sudo "last login" message and how to turn it off FreeBSD8.0 Message-ID: <20100625090146.367c67d5@icy.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <201006241841.o5OIf4BU089418@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201006241841.o5OIf4BU089418@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:41:04 -0500
Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> I have actually seen this on some FreeBSD6.3 systems and thought
> it was a querk. It may still be a querk but it has started again
> on an 8.0 system. I think I am doing something to cause it, but
> I am not sure.
>
> When one executes a sudo command, I get a "last login"
> message which reflects the last time I ran sudo. Example:
>
> [martin@pilot ~]$ sudo whoami
> Password:
> Last login: Thu Jun 24 13:07:20 from pilot.it.okstate
> root
>
> There is another FreeBSD8.0 system here that has not yet
> behaved this way so I did something to the test system to make
> it start.
>
> Any ideas as to what to look at?
I experienced the same problem and I just disabled /var/log/{userlog,lastlog}:
# ls -ltro /var/log/|grep uchg
-rw------- 1 root wheel uappnd,uchg,uunlnk 1 May 9 08:59 userlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel uappnd,uchg,uunlnk 1 May 9 18:50 lastlog
Hope this helps.
Regards,
--
Anh Ky Huynh
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