Our students have discovered that if they "login username" after they have
logged in, their where-abouts isn't seen from "who" (utmp). The info is
still in wtmp (so "last user" works fine). It's just annoying when you
type "w" and half of them show up blank! :-(
oberon:~ 21> who|grep alf
alf ttysd May 31 23:46 (dialin-alf)
oberon:~ 22> login alf
oberon:~ 21> who|grep alf
alf ttysd May 31 23:46
oberon:~ 28> last alf
alf ttysd Sun May 31 23:46 - 23:53 (00:07)
alf ttysd dialin-alf Sun May 31 23:46 - 23:46 (00:00)
I'm running DU4.0B (no patches) with enhanced security.
Is this a setup problem on my end or just a feature of 'login'?
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Andrew "Alf" Leahy, phone: 02 47 360622
Unix Systems Administrator, mailto:alf_at_cit.nepean.uws.edu.au
School of Computing & IT, UWS Nepean
http://www.cit.nepean.uws.edu.au/~alf/
Received on Sun May 31 1998 - 16:01:28 NZST