Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:24:27 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List of active users, logged in with gdm Message-ID: <47D81FDB.9080907@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <47D80366.5040206@shopzeus.com> References: <47D80366.5040206@shopzeus.com>
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Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> I would like to get the list of the users who are actively logged in=20
> remotely with gdm, along with their IP address. The commands 'w' and=20
> 'users' does not work. What is the right command to get this list?
Let me turn that question around slightly:
How can I get gdm(8) to record user logins in /var/run/utmp ?
It's the utmp file that commands like w(1) and users(1) read in order
to present the list of logged-in users. As far as I know this is the
only effective means the system uses to record who is logged in when --
I'm not aware of any gdm(1) specific equivalent.
Now, in order for a login to be recorded in utmp(5) it should suffice to
have a line like:
session required pam_lastlog.so no_fail
in the appropriate file under /etc/pam.d or /usr/local/etc/pam.d
I'm using /etc/pam.d/xdm as a reference -- xdm(8) is functionally
similar to gdm(8) and I'd think it would have a very similar PAM
configuration. However I haven't positively verified that, and you'ld
do well to search for PAM-related info in gdm documentation and so
forth.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
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