Bug 7417

Summary:	No information re: hostname and user associated with stdin
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Scott Gibson <wsgibson>
Component:	sh-utils	Assignee:	bero
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	wsgibson
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Description Scott Gibson 1999-11-29 20:45:29 UTC

I am not totally sure if this is a "who" problem but the symptom is shown
via the who command.

When running "/usr/bin/who -ml" I no longer get the user and hostname
associated with stdin when running locally (under X).  This will only work
if I am running gdm and GNOME.  This problem will occur whether "who" is
run from gnome-terminal, xterm, or rxvt.  This has worked up through RH
Linux 6.0.  I get similar results using XFce and KDE.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2000-02-04 15:18:59 UTC

The basic problem is that 'who' has the -m option at all. utmp entries are for
login sessions, not shell prompts, so there is no direct correlation between a
particular pty and a particular session. The -m option mostly remains for
historical reasons - in the "old days", they didn't have to worry about things
such as logins via gdm etc. :)

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2000-02-04 15:19:59 UTC

The basic problem is that 'who' has the -m option at all. utmp entries are for
login sessions, not shell prompts, so there is no direct correlation between a
particular pty and a particular session. The -m option mostly remains for
historical reasons - in the "old days", they didn't have to worry about things
such as logins via gdm etc. :)