Bug#303265: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#303265: sysvinit: Last does not display IPv6 addresses correctly)

[Jason Cormie]

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Hello Miquel,
	I had already retitled and reassigned the bug to GDM
	(although apon further investigation I should have assigned it to
xutils for sessreg)

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #303265: GDM does not log the correct IP address in wtmp,
> which was filed against the gdm package.
>
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>.
>
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> Received: (at 303265-done) by bugs.debian.org; 14 Apr 2005 09:03:57 +0000
> From miquels@cistron.nl Thu Apr 14 02:03:57 2005
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> Subject: Re: Bug#303265: sysvinit: Last does not display IPv6 addresses
> 	correctly
> From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
> To: Jason Cormie <ccojdc@abertay.ac.uk>
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> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:44 +0100, Jason Cormie wrote:
>
>>Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>>
>>>"last" handles IPv6 in utmp/wtmp correctly as far as I know, but
>>>I also know that ssh did not in previous versions at least. Not sure
>>>what current versions do.
>>>
>>>So I guess last just shows you what actually is logged in
>>>/var/log/wtmp, and if it's junk, it's junk ...
>>
>>I may have been jumping to conclusions.
>>
>>I think the culprit is sessreg being called by gdm when someone logs in
>>here is some output
>>
>>last
>>c511094  mc3273.uad.a mc3273.uad.ac.uk Thu Apr  7 09:18 - 09:19  (00:01)
>>
>>last -i
>>c511094  mc3273.uad.a 112.191.21.64    Thu Apr  7 09:18 - 09:19  (00:01)
>>	(the ip should be 193.60.161.86)
>>
>>Have looked at wtmp and yes you are right the false ip is in there.
>
>
> OK, closing this bug. Feel free to re-open it and reassign it to gdm or
> sessreg.
>
> Mike.
>

--
Jason Cormie

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