On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Moorcroft, Mark (ARC-TS)[ERC, Inc.]
<mark.moorcroft AT nasa DOT gov> wrote:
>
>
>>Mine 'have' /var/log/lastlog.  Just not the problem with TB+ apparent
>>sizes. Do you have a uid of -1  - or very, very large uids?
>
> Every one of my systems list last log at 505GB with a vanilla ³ls² and all
> are root:root.

The (sparse) space is pre-allocated at about 256 bytes per user for
all potential users.  I think it just looks at the highest uid,
though.   It may be more complicated with network authentication.

>>Maybe that was when everyone else took the -1 uid out...
>
> ?

-1 is a very big number if you misinterpret it as unsigned on a 64-bit machine.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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