On Wed, 10 Jun 2026, Craig Small wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 at 22:13, Harald Hannelius <[email protected]>
wrote:
$ w
14:55:47 up 3:58, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@
IDLE
JCPU PCPU WHAT
$ who
$ finger
No one logged on.
I expected to see a list of people logged on.
That looks like its the writing part of the process going wrong with 3
different systems not showing users,
rather than the reading side.
w uses information like what "loginctl list-users" shows, what does that
command give you?
I think I'm actually barking up the wrong tree here.
It looks like if I use ssh to log on, my session shows up in w's output. If
I use mosh, I don't.
From a mosh-session;
$ w
10:52:21 up 1 day, 23:55, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE
JCPU PCPU WHAT
$ loginctl list-users
UID USER LINGER STATE
xxx harald no closing
1 users listed.
$
Log om over ssh;
$ w
10:53:06 up 1 day, 23:56, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE
JCPU PCPU WHAT
harald pts/0 2001:xxxx:xxx:xxx:::6 10:53
2.00s 0.02s ? w
$ loginctl list-users
UID USER LINGER STATE
xxx harald no active
1 users listed.
$
Also is this true for all types of user access? local vty, windows, ssh?
All users log on over ssh solely.
nsswitch is set to get users from files and ldap.
That side which is pam-account is probably ok, what about pam sessions (e.g
session lines in /etc/pam.d/*),
anything different?
These are beyond me, haven't touched any of those.
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