bug or feature? gdm logins not recorded in lastlog

[Tomas Mraz]

On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 00:03 -0400, John Ellson wrote: 
> Before I generate a bug report, could I get a second opinion on whether 
> this is a bug or a feature?
> 
> Console logins through gdm are not getting recorded in lastlog.   
> (Fedora 16)

I think it is a bug. It might be solvable by adding the line:
session    required    pam_lastlog.so silent nowtmp

to the gdm PAM configuration files.
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Tomas Mraz
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