Re: [RFC] Modernizing Linux authentication logs (lastlog, btmp, utmp, wtmp) with SQLite

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From: Roman Bakshansky

Date: Fri Mar 13 2026 - 13:53:30 EST

On 3/13/26 5:45 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

FYI, utmp has been reintroduced in Debian for libutempter (and thus
applications that use this library), because systemd was not working
or at least not sufficiently documented:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1125682

Thank you for the link to the Debian bug. This example has further convinced me that I am on the right track and that such an RFC is indeed needed by the community.