I agree with Jean-Daniel, this is something that must be adressed. While you now see any graphical log-in using 'who' and it lists users both at "tty7" etc, for graphical log-in, and as "pts/2" etc for terminal log- in, only the termianl sessions are seen with the "last" command.
That worked correctly with Ubuntu 10.04 (showed graphical log-in), now it is broken with 12.04 and lightdm. For anyone who is trying to diagnose security breaches or just general system screw-ups, it is a serious omission given that most users log-in via the graphical screen. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027805 Title: logins are not recorded in wtmp Status in Light Display Manager: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: After applying the fix for #870297, utmp records are updated correctly but wtmp is not: flashman ~ % ssh root@test-precise 'dpkg-query --show lightdm && last -n1' lightdm 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1 root pts/0 flashman Tue Jul 17 10:32 - 10:32 (00:00) wtmp begins Fri Jul 13 19:23:13 2012 'last' output here should show my graphical session as 'still logged in'. This should probably be fixed by stacking pam_lastlog for user sessions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1027805/+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
