FW: who am i

[Mike Jakubik]

Also, try doing 'who /etc' or any other directory.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Jakubik [mailto:mikej at trigger.net]
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:23 PM
To: Stable
Subject: RE: who am i


root at ns1:~# who am i
root             ttyp1    Jul  4 13:20 (wettoast.org)
root at ns1:~# login
login: wettoast
Password:
Last login: Fri Jul  4 09:48:25 on ttyp1
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FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE (NS1) #0: Tue Jul  1 01:07:20 EDT 2003

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wettoast at ns1:~$ logout
root at ns1:~# who am i
wettoast         ttyp1    Jul  4 13:20
root at ns1:~#

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of c4
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:05 PM
To: stable at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: who am i


Well that's weird cause

(c4 at tonij:~) who am i
c4               ttyp0   Jul  4 19:03   (10.0.0.2)
(c4 at tonij:~) su -
Password:
su-2.05a# who am i
c4               ttyp0   Jul  4 19:03   (10.0.0.2)
su-2.05a# logout
(c4 at tonij:~) who am i
c4               ttyp0   Jul  4 19:03   (10.0.0.2)
(c4 at tonij:~) uname -a
FreeBSD tonij.jolt.nu 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct  2
20:54:06 CEST 2002

At 15:50 2003-07-04, you wrote:
>I don't think this is a problem with su. The same occurs when running login
>in a shell, then logging out. I've seen this bug in FreeBSD since early
4.x,
>I guess I just never bothered to mention it, thinking someone would notice
>and fix it. It has certainly scared me a few times, it would be nice if it
>was corrected.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Morten Rodal
>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:02 PM
>To: Richard Arends
>Cc: current at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: who am i
>
>
>On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:46:10AM +0200, Richard Arends wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Please take a look at this:
> >
> > =================================================================
> > [snowlap] ~$ who am i
> > richard          ttyp5    Jul  4 00:34 (:0.0)
> > [snowlap] ~$ su -
> > Password:
> > Last login: Fri Jul  4 00:31:17 on ttyp5
> > snowlap# who am i
> > root             ttyp5    Jul  4 00:34
> > snowlap# exit
> > logout
> > [snowlap] ~$ who am i
> > root             ttyp5    Jul  4 00:34
> > =================================================================
> >
> > Of course the latest 'who am i' should return 'richard' and not(!)
'root'
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard.
> >
>
>I am seeing the same things, and I reported similar stuff in another
>mail to this list.  Someone suggested that this was a utmp(5) problem
>and might be a problem with the su(1) program.
>
>--
>Morten Rodal
>
>
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