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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:40:37 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@lajt.hu>
Cc:        Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1
Message-ID:  <448v5i2nqi.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <7143c3e1.5f870c49.514981f1.d9ec5@lajt.hu> (Istvan Gabor's message of "Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:31:29 %2B0100")
References:  <56707a03.4dd020e4.51488b7c.7858d@lajt.hu> <20130319160324.GA63756@eris.bzerk.org> <7143c3e1.5f870c49.514981f1.d9ec5@lajt.hu>

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Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@lajt.hu> writes:

> 2. I found that users are reported if they are logged in on terminal session or through ssh.
> User who is logged in through KDM3 into KDE3 session is not shown.
> Does this change the above diagnosis? Can it be something else, maybe?

Well, if they don't start a login shell, they're not going to show up as
logged in. Most terminal programs have an option to start them as login
shells, but I don't know KDE well enough to know what the normal
practice there would be.



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