Re: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> writes:
Chris> Fellow Developers,
Chris> you are probably aware of the time_t-64bit migration :-)
Chris> However, this does not magically transition all data formats to 64bit
Chris> times. One such instance is the set of utmp/wtmp and lastlog files.
Chris> Thorsten Kukuk and others have been working on replacements for the
Chris> existing file formats and interfaces [1]; these are called wtmpdb
Chris> and lastlog2.
Relatedly, PAM upstream and apparently at least some aspects of Fedora
have been moving to logind to handle utmp functionality.
You will start to see the first impacts of that in pam unstable.
--Sam
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