"exit" vs. "X-ing" out of a terminal

[Charles Heselton]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:08:16 -0400, Clint Harshaw
<clint at penguinsolutions.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Some time ago, I posted a question about mysterious users that showed up
>  when I would do a "who" at the prompt. I have a question related to
> that issue. Is there any difference in typing "exit" to stop a terminal
> vs. clicking on the "X" in that terminal's window? I wonder if these
> extra users are due to my "X-ing" out of a terminal rather than typing
> "exit" at the prompt.
> 
> Is there any harm done by "X-ing" out of the terminal?
> 
> Is there a proper way to retrieve those users remaining from a prior
> X-out so that I could "exit" from them? (short of rebooting, I can't
> seem to remove the extraneous users.)
> 
> Clint
> 
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Guess I need a little more detail to intelligently answer you
question.  But, it sounds like you are mistaking multiple local or
remote sessions for multiple users.  Anytime you open a new shell
(terminal window) it's will show up as a new user.

I'm not really sure what you're concern is here.  If you're trying to
be security conscious, then you just accept those users and any one
you DON'T recognize would be worth looking into.

If you're just OCD, and you want to see that only a single user is logged in....

try the following at the command prompt:

#> init 1
#> who

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Charlie Heselton
Network Security Engineer