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

[Jim McQuillan]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 03:40:33PM +0200, Trond M?hlum 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.

Read the howto.  it may be geared towards KDM, but the concepts are the
same.  You just need to look at gdm.conf, and see which scripts are run,
and add the same code to update the utmp file.  The only thing that
changes is which file you need to edit.  Follow gdm.conf, and see what
it is doing.

Jim.


> 
> 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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