Listing on-line users with 'w'command ...

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Hi,

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 07:40:11PM -0300, root wrote:

... never do anything as root, *especially* not e-mailing.

>     I've done what you've asked me to: Try to find if mgetty or who is
> looking for 'utmp' in a wrong place, but it's not doing this, they are
> looking for them in /var/run/utmp and it's there.
>     When I type 'w', a list of on-line users in shown. But the users
> authenticated with autoppp is shown as a_ppp, with the others, this does
> not happen and their names appears with this command and in the log
> files. 

You didn't make clear in your first question that this problem was only
happening for AutoPPP users - which lead us to wrong conclusions.

For the PPP case, it's a FAQ, and as such answered in the mgetty FAQ.

(And not a mgetty problem at all - pppd doesn't put the required data into
utmp, and there is supposed to be a patch available somewhere, but this is
NOT a mgetty problem, and as I do not use ppp on Linux, I don't have any
idea how to solve this.  Ask the PPP people.)

gert
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