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Subject: Re: Question: where is utmp entry deleted at logout?
From: Stef Bon <stef () bononline ! tk>
Date: 2005-10-14 8:51:44
Message-ID: 200510141051.44159.stef () bononline ! tk
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On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:13, Yuri Kozlov wrote:
> from login.1
>
> The login program is NOT responsible for removing users from the utmp
> file. It is the responsibility of getty(8) and init(8) to clean
> up apparent ownership of a terminal session. If you use login from the
> shell prompt without exec, the user you use will continue to appear to be
> logged in even after you log out of the "subsession".
Thanks, I've tried this and indeed, it looks as the user of the subsession is
still logged in.
I've been testing this more. When I login with 'login', and look with the
command "who -u" to the users logged in, I see:
who -u
--snip
root su[6041] Oct 14 10:25 ? 6041
sbon pts/1 Oct 14 10:25 00:02 6124
And when I look at the processes with "ps aux" I get:
--snip
root 6124 0.0 0.7 6544 2020 ? S 10:25 0:00 login --sbon
sbon 6183 0.0 0.7 5396 1972 pts/1 Ss 10:25 0:00 -bash
Now when I look at this, this can't be right! In the utmp file the pid of the
login process is stored, and not of what the user is actually doing: bash
(6183)!! This looks like a bug to me. When I look to the source of login, I
can explain this very easy: in entry in the utmpdatabase is written before
forking (creating a childprocess for the user to enter his shell) and so the
pid is taken of the parent (login) process, and not of the child (shell).
Am I right on this??
Stef Bon
PS
When I look to another way to login, kdm, this is handled ok.
I discovered this difference in behaviour working on my hint to execute
scripts at the begin and the end of a usersession, using PAM. Look at:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/read.html
>
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> Yuri Kozlov
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