User logins "spawned" when users utilize X-term

[Joe Robinson_2]

Using one of my companies applications using X, I notice that they are having multiple logins occur if I do a who. Is there a configuration that I can change to prevent this from happening? I'm using 10.23 and VUE.

Thanks in advance,

Joe Robinson

[Alex Glennie]

Not sure what your saying but if you login via VUE and open up 2 xterms and then run who you then see ....

username console
username pts1
username pts2

then this is normal behaviour .... I guess you could disbale login to the file wtmp which who uses but I wouldn't recommend it ?

[Alex Glennie]

in fact I don't think locally it can be done at all .

[Joe Robinson_2]

Thanks for the info...if I understand correctly, a login will show for the initial login and every terminal/x session that is started from the control panel.

I had been told from a counterpart at another site that they didn't have this happen when their users were utilizing x. Not sure of their configuration, so I thought best to ask the experts...

[Alex Glennie]

the only time I think you may not see this behaviour
is on a PC using Xemulation s/w when you disable wtmp logging via /etc/pcnfsd.conf .... I maybe wrong but I certainly perceive this as normal behaviour.

[Wodisch]

Hello,

IIRC there is an obscure option to "xterm" NOT to
appear in the "/var/adm/wtmp" file and hence not in
the output of "who" and similiar...
Read the man page for it ;-)

HTH,
Wodisch