(Answer) (Category) Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : (Category) System Configuration :
Finger says users have "never logged in," but it's lying.
You need to create /var/log/lastlog.

touch /var/log/lastlog
chmod 644 /var/log/lastlog

Posted here by jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu, copied from a post
to mklinux-misc by James Clough.
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