Thanks Sumit.  Rather bizzarely my workstation has no /var/run/utmp file.
I rebooted yesterday - you would think a file like that would be created at
boot time if it did not exist. Weird!


On 4 July 2018 at 08:54, Sumit Bose <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:11:28AM +0200, John Hearns wrote:
> > It seems bizarre, but the who and w utilities say there are no users on
> my
> > system.
> > My account  is an Active Direcotry account and sssd is running.
> >
> > johe@ibis:~$ who
> >
> > johe@ibis:~$ w
> >  10:09:26 up 16:47,  0 users,  load average: 0.60, 0.59, 0.48
> > USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> >
> > I guess this is known behaviour?
>
> I would suggest to run the commands with strace to see what the
> command tries to do. Iirc the user name is actually read from the utmp
> file and SSSD is not called at all here. So the issue might already
> happen earlier that the needed entry isn't written to utmp.
>
> HTH
>
> bye,
> Sumit
>
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