[LightDM] No list of last logged in users

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl> [2013-04-20 15:07]:
> Version 1.4.0-1 (from Debian experimental) has been in production on our 
> system for over a month now and it seems to be working well enough. 
> However, the other day I noticed that the users are not showing up in the 
> last log (/var/log/wtmp). Is this a function that I need to enable 
> somewhere, or is this a bug? In case of the latter, any suggestions for a 
> fix or a workaround would be welcome.

LightDM only updates utmp, as a workaround you can create scripts
which update wtmp through the sessreg(1) tool and run them on
login/logout via lightdm.conf's session-setup-script and
session-cleanup-script hooks.
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Guido Berhoerster