why the command of "who" dosen't work while i login through xdm

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:03, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > konsole is not writing utmp entires it appears.  I'll have to check this
> > on my work box (which is on -CURRENT) but I think its fixed in later
> > versions of konsole.  The login records are a function of whatever spawns
> > the terminal, which is usually login(8) but in X its usually xterm.
>
> xterm(1) can be told whether to write into utmp.  I have no idea about
> konsole, but I'm pretty sure that xconsole(1) cannot.

It doesn't here. (KDE 3.2.2, 5.2-CURRENT)
(Never has done AFAIR)

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