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

[Matt Alexander]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Trond Mæhlum wrote:

> 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?

Change /etc/sysconfig/desktop so it contains the following:

DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"