Bug 60360

Summary:	finger shows a user logged in when w or who doesn't
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Phil Hale <phale>
Component:	finger	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description Phil Hale 2002-02-26 17:48:03 UTC

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Description of problem:
Doing a finger will show a user as logged in when there are no running processes
for the user and the w and who commands don't show the user as being logged in.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.login and see user logged via finger
2.run ps auxw and see no processes for the user
3.run w and who and the user doesn't show up as logged in.
	

Actual Results:  finger show inaccurate information about the user being logged in.

Expected Results:  finger shouldn't show the user as logged in when there are no
running processes and w and who don't show them as being logged in.

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Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-02-27 11:42:46 UTC

Tried on 7.2, works there...

Read ya, Phil