From 5cdc4895733ce3a723a5a58686a4d92a3c69c953 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:58:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix utmp permissions, Gentoo #240437.

---
 init.d/bootmisc.in | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/init.d/bootmisc.in b/init.d/bootmisc.in
index 50e83a0c..529097ef 100644
--- a/init.d/bootmisc.in
+++ b/init.d/bootmisc.in
@@ -77,10 +77,13 @@ start()
 	if dir_writeable /var/run; then
 		ebegin "Creating user login records"
 		cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp
+		chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp
+		chmod 0664 /var/run/utmp
 		if dir_writeable /var/log; then
 			logw=true
 			[ -e /var/log/wtmp ] || cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp
-			chmod 0644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp
+			chgrp utmp /var/log/wtmp
+			chmod 0664 /var/log/wtmp
 		fi
 		eend 0