Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > Arsen Arsenović wrote: >> 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".
Sure, but one cannot name two users on a Unix system 'gdm', and there is a passwd entry for 'gdm', so that scenario is impossible (save for administrative errors): arsen@fedora:~$ grep gdm /etc/passwd gdm:x:42:42:GNOME Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm:/usr/sbin/nologin arsen@fedora:~$ useradd gdm useradd: user 'gdm' already exists Presumably Giovanni might pick 'giovannidm' or 'gdmicheli' or such instead. The case for or against there being a user called 'gdm' when one installs a Fedora system is one best presented to the Fedora hackers, though, as it does not impact the correctness of the result above. -- Arsen Arsenović
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