Dear misc@ readres,
I'm struggling with the output of who/w/last commands, at the moment
partially inconsistent IMHO.
I noticed that utmp session logging is explicitly disabled in XDM:
just22@poseidon:[~]> tail -n1 /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY -u none -x
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers $USER
("-u none" prevents writing records in utmp; on the other hand, even the
-x argument should be changed to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers).
Anyone could argument about this choice? Which is the right way to
use the who/w/last commands in OBSD?
I found an old related message on tech@ [1], but with no follow-up, so I
feel alone... Nonetheless, I consider the logged user listing utilities output
consistency a very valuable matter, particularly for remote machine
administration.
Thanks in advance for your time.
[1] http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/XDM-utmp-td172012.html
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