On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 08:56:42PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE, and there was a strange > added side effect. > Users that telnet into the machine seem to have their logins forever > ghosted in who/w. > If a user connects via telnet, then logs out, their login still > remains in the w/who. If another user logins in with the pty they had, > whatever they do also shows up in the ghosted w/who of the previous > user using that pty. > For example: > User X logs in, runs BitchX. Detaches the process and logs out.User Y > logs in, gets assigned User X's previous pty, who/w now reports that > user is running BitchX. That user has no access to the BitchX session > or anything, it's just being displayed weird in who/w. > I seem to remember this problem like a decade ago and I had written a > script or there was a script that passed around called clearlogin. > Any ideas? Thanks all!Damon
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