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How do I get btmp working!?
Posted by Kellen on Sat 12 Aug 2006 at 18:57
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I've got btmp defined in /etc/login.defs: 
FTMP_FILE       /var/log/btmp

But btmp is still always empty:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 0 Aug 1 06:25 /var/log/btmp

WTF?!
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Re: How do I get btmp working!?
Posted by myst (83.8.xx.xx) on Thu 17 Aug 2006 at 12:53
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I had a similar problem. Try to change permissions of your /var/log/btmp to 600 and group to root.
Do you try to log unsuccessful logins locally or from ssh?
There is a bug in openssh, which doesn`t allow to log failed logins. AFAIK the bug is corrected in openssh-3.9

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