Arsen Arsenović wrote: > >> I agree with you that this _looks_like_ as if a user named 'gdm' was logged > >> in, and thus is misleading. But I don't think this should be fixed in > >> coreutils. Rather, this is something to work out between systemd-logind > >> and gdm. > > > > OK, but until that's worked out it appears to be better to not use > > --enable-systemd on Fedora when configuring Coreutils. Likewise for Ubuntu > > which has the same issue, and I assume Debian is like Ubuntu. > > This is correct, though, there is a session for the user 'gdm', and > they're taking up tty1. If you walk up to that computer (you said you > were using SSH, so I assume you're remote), you'll see GDM running on > the screen (on one of the virtual TTYs).
If Giovanni De Micheli has an account on this computer, who's output is ambiguous: you cannot tell whether the real user 'gdm' or the GNOME display manager is occupying the "seat". I would suggest that, at least, the GNOME display manager identifies itself as "(gdm)" instead of "gdm". Bruno
