[K12OSN] 'who' lies about users...

Trond Mæhlum trondrm at online.no
Sun Aug 29 13:40:33 UTC 2004


k12osn-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
> Trond,
>
> the 'who' command relies on entries in the utmp and wtmp files.
>
> It's usually up to the display manager (GDM,XDM,KDM) to add
> the entries to the utmp files, and remove the entries when
> you log out.  Over the years various display managers have
> been setup correctly or incorrectly to do that.  It varies
> alot by distribution, version and display manager.

> Take a look at the ltsp.org contrib page, Derek Dresser wrote
> an article about how to set up the session scripts to keep
> the utmp files updated.
>
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org


Thank you Jim,

I use the standard display manager setup by K12LTSP 4.0.1. Is that GDMM?
I see that the how-to works on KDM.

Is there any easy way of changing from GDM to KDM?

Finally can someone verify that K12LTSP 4.0.1 defaults to GDM on the
terminals?

Regards

Trond




> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:55:27AM +0200, Trond M?hlum wrote:
>> I use K12LTSP 4.0.1 on my LTSP servers. They all use ldap login. A
>> main server has all the home folders and handles most services. It
>> also houses the ldap database. I want to see who is logged on the
>> LTSP servers. I try the who command, but it only shows one user. I
>> suspect it shows the user who last logged on. I know that there are
>> many more users on, but they don't show up. Is this a Fedora thing?
>> When I use the Norwegian "Skolelinux", which is Debian-based with
>> the same setup as the Feodra boxes, the who command lists all
>> users...
>>
>> Can someone help me with this one? Is there an alternative to
>> monitor user activity?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Trond M?hlum
>>
>>
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