From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: On my RedHat 7.1 server, users rexec and rlogin from other machines for access. Once they logout, the users command still reports them as logged in. RedHat 7 did not do this...... How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have users rlogin or rexec into a RH7.1 machine 2. Type "users" at a command prompt to see that they have logged in 3. Have the user logogg 4. Type "users" again - they will still be logged in Actual Results: The procedure above shows that users are still logged in even though they are not Expected Results: The user's name should have been removed from the list when they logoff. Additional info: This is a Dell Poweredge 1400 Server (dual PIII's @ 1 GHz) but this has also happened on my other RH7.1 machines. This can be annoying if you want to remove and add or change a user on the system. The only way to "log them off" to allow root to change their account is to reboot the server - not fun! This upsets the other users :)
Looks like rshd doesn't handle utmp correctly.
Has been fixed im recent rawhide kernels (2.4.5-xxx). It seems to have been some /proc proccesses related bug. Read ya, Phil *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42572 ***