Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:16:56 -0400 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running an Old Kernel Message-ID: <AANLkTimPERjZpN_-GIUjUGsARJZmuUppVwKqJWctr2tY@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilZ7FIuLO-TguqDAGRwb4ZzWNVDT88HqOD6zMYF@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTilZ7FIuLO-TguqDAGRwb4ZzWNVDT88HqOD6zMYF@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/25/10, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: > Martin McCormick wrote: >> I have been attempting to shut off that "last login" message >> that occurs on some FreeBSD systems every time one runs a sudo >> command. I decided to bring back the last kernel which was the ... > Why on earth are you tinkering with your kernels in order to change > sudo output? You should instead be editing configuration files > associated with sudo and related base system utilities, or patching > sudo. I should be more specific: I think you should be able to disable the message by commenting out the lines that refer to pam_lastlog.so in /etc/pam.d/system, /etc/pam.d/xdm, and /etc/pam.d/telnetd. But in doing so, you will lose some of the security and accounting benefits of last(1) and friends. Is it really worth it, just to silence some console messages? In any event, don't tinker with your kernel because of this. It won't help, and it may break your system. b.
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