Bug 84026

Summary:	gdm does not update /var/run/utmp correctly
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Norman Gaywood <ngaywood>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	jirka
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Norman Gaywood 2003-02-11 02:59:18 UTC

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Description of problem:
gdm does not update /var/run/utmp correctly when logging in via xdmcp. The first
user seems to be added correctly but all subsequent logins replace the previous
login. So 'who/w/finger' only ever shows one X terminal style login even though
there are many more.

wtmp seems to be correct. That is, last correctly shows that last and current
logins.

The only changes I have made to the gdm setup from a default install is to the
gdm.conf file. Here is the diff between my gdm.conf and the one supplied in RH 8.0

diff gdm.conf gdm.conf-redhat
72c72
< Enable=true
---
> Enable=false
74,78c74,78
< MaxPending=10
< MaxPendingIndirect=10
< MaxSessions=80
< MaxWait=30
< MaxWaitIndirect=30
---
> MaxPending=4
> MaxPendingIndirect=4
> MaxSessions=16
> MaxWait=15
> MaxWaitIndirect=15
149c149
< #0=Standard
---
> 0=Standard


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make changes to gdm.conf to allow xdmcp logins
2. restart gdm
3. start logins from 2 or more xterminals via xdmcp and observe the output of
who/w/finger
    

Actual Results:  Only the last xdmcp login is displayed with who/w/finger even
though the last command shows more than one "still logged in".

Expected Results:  All users should be in who/w/finger output

Additional info:

Comment 1 George Lebl 2003-07-23 19:20:14 UTC

Note that this is the way that the redhat package handles the Pre/PostSession
scripts.  upstream will handle this correctly.

Comment 2 George Lebl 2003-08-04 19:01:03 UTC

Hmmm, apparently recent RPMS do this correctly, but I think if you upgrade from
a version that did it wrongly (don't know which was the last version that did
that) you might still get wrong links in the PreSession/PostSession dirs.  See
bug #101105 since that's related (well really the same exact problem I think).

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-11-10 20:44:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101105 ***