Yes, last command should show also graphical logins. I don't know how long this has been broken for me, maybe since gdm was replaced with lightdm. So, it is also true that this might be something desktop users won't use much.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507021 Title: Last login time should be shown also in graphical environments Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The UNIX shell has for ages shown to users their last login time after a successful login time. The line is e.g.: #Last login: Web Sep 23 10:57:34 EEST 2009 on tty1". This is a good security feature since it allows the user to discover if his account has been accessed at a time the user himself knows for sure he didn't log in. Command 'last' will show the last logins. Man page 'wtmp' will tell more about the feature. At the moment there is nothing similar in a graphical environment. If somebody is using my account, I wouldn't probably notice it.. I don't know what the correct place to implement this is (GDM, Gnome, separate script?), but some part of the login process should a) record the login to /var/log/wtmp b) read the last login for the current user an flash it as a notification for 5-10 seconds Additionally it would be nice if there was an graphical equivalent graphical tool to the 'last' command. However that requires more work. I guess the two things suggested above could be done with just a few lines of code - thus I made this bug report. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/507021/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
