Hi Troy,

> That's fine and dandy for new install's of S.L. 4.2, but what about people 
> who already have these huge files.
> That ... I'm still looking at to correct way to do.
> If someone knows the right way to remove a user from lastlog, I wouldn't mind 
> hearing.

I don't know whether there's a right way. But something like

   dd if=/var/log/lastlog of=lltmp bs=292 count=65000
   cp --sparse=always lltmp /var/log/lastlog

should do (292 seems to be the record size of the lastlog file; change
count to whatever it takes to accommodate the highest uid). Any better 
ideas?

BTW, SL3 has the same problem.

Cheers,
 	Stephan

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