[CentOS] lastlog oddity

Liam O'Toole liam.p.otoole at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 15:58:55 UTC 2013


On 2013-12-04, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> This is very odd. I updated a user's workstation yesterday. This morning,
> I ran lastlog | grep -v Never, and it shows only another admin and myself,
> and that's from days ago, but not the user. It shows her as "Never logged
> in". Meanwhile, last does indeed show her logged in (though not today).
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>         mark

Does the user log in through gdm only? gdm doesn't update
/var/log/lastlog these days.

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Liam





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