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This might go somewhere else, not certain excatly where. Can the default behaviour of xdm/gdm (not certain about kdm) be changed so that whenever a user logs in an entry is put in utmpx/wtmp (for w, finger, last) as well as going in /var/log/messages. It makes it much nicer for tracking users down. It is nice to see entries in /var/log/secure
XFree86 3.3.3.1 build 49 and higher include this feature in /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole and TakeConsole. Any *dm that uses these files will automatically have this feature then; this includes xdm and kdm. gdm does things entirely on its own, it doesn't use these legacy configuration files. Please make a suggestion to the GNOME developers to add this feature to their display manager.
*** Bug 2366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** When logging into RH Linux via xdm the lastlog files are not updated. Thus, a 'w' or 'who' command would show the user as logged in, but a finger of the user would not show them as logged in. ------- Additional Comments From scott@mehosky.com 05/09/99 17:20 ------- I have had this problem on several Red Hat systems.