Paul Eggert wrote:
> Fedora 38 runs
> systemd, for example, and it still maintains /var/log/wtmp. Likewise for
> Ubuntu 23.04.
Well, these are the permissions of these files:
/var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/btmpowner
Ubuntu 23.04 rw-rw-r-- rw-rw-r
On 2023-08-07 04:22, Bruno Haible wrote:
Since the fact that /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp are world-readable
implies that they are world-lockable and thus the DoS bug
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24492 applies,
to me it's clear that both utmp and wtmp needs to go away
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