[OpenIndiana-discuss] Convoluted dependence

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 07:10, Udo Grabowski (IMKASF)
<udo.grabowski at kit.edu> wrote:
> Diving into ttymon and login, which should handle that correctly,
> but somehow don't. Stumbled across /var/adm/utmpx in the man page
> ... and then it clicked: Had removed world readability for [uw]tmpx*
> to comply with the EU GDPR regulations (non-observability of user
> activity), and that somehow stops login and ttymon to set the
> console_user ownership correctly ... so GDPR blocks users from viewing
> videos ...

I'm not immediately convinced the GDPR requires that last(1) not work
on a UNIX system, but regardless: it seems like a not-unreasonable
site policy for a security-sensitive installation.  It would be worth
filing an OS bug that describes the specifics.

-- 
Joshua M. Clulow
http://blog.sysmgr.org