The following reply was made to PR bin/32903; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/32903: utmp remains empty
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:09:23 -0500

 On Feb 25,  9:05am, i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk (i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/32903: utmp remains empty
 
 |  it still hasn't been addressed as to why
 |  group ownership of utmp files would matter.
 |  getty/login run as root, and can write to
 |  any file they want to.  sshd writes to
 |  utmp properly - so this is further
 |  evidence that it is not a ownership problem.
 
 If you don't have pam turned on for ssh (usepam yes in sshd_config) then
 the two programs use different mechanisms to write to the utmp file.
 
 christos