From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 23 17:54:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18055 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:54:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpress.com (mpress.com [208.138.29.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA18050 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:54:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6408 invoked by uid 100); 24 Mar 1997 01:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19970324015400.6407.qmail@mpress.com> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:54:00 -0800 From: Brian Litzinger To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: who, utmp, and login Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.66 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I sometimes have an xterm session open, and login into someone elses account via login. After exiting the session back to my account, who (utmp) still shows the other account logged in forever. I.E. brian@apt> login bobr password: bobr@apt> exit brian@apt> who brian ttyv0 Mar 21 22:31 bobr ttyp2 Mar 21 22:47 brian ttyp4 Mar 22 16:09 the bobr is wrong. If I do the same thing with another account, the bobr is replaced by whichever other account I use. Is this the expected behavior? -- Brian Litzinger brian@mediacity.com