2 Users

recently gkrellm say`s there are 2 users logged on, I don`t get it....if i type users at the prompt it says 3 times my login name, but who is the other user??

Originally posted by guilluame@Aug 2 2004, 14:44
recently gkrellm say`s there are 2 users logged on, I don`t get it....if i type users at the prompt it says 3 times my login name, but who is the other user??

root/your system? At least I seem to remember something like that.

No when i log on as root this becomes the third user, normaly when i log into my acountt there`s only one user, but since a day or so there are 2 ... It just came to mind that this started
after a recent problem...everywere i put my cursor there apeared zero`s... this stopt after a while...COULD I HAVE A VIRUS????.... the problem with the zero`s i reported to SuSE..no awnser yet...

To see who is logged in and where from, enter

w -f

from a shell prompt.

Originally posted by guilluame@Aug 2 2004, 13:11
No when i log on as root this becomes the third user, normaly when i log into my acountt there`s only one user, but since a day or so there are 2 ... It just came to mind that this started
after a recent problem...everywere i put my cursor there apeared zero`s... this stopt after a while...COULD I HAVE A VIRUS????.... the problem with the zero`s i reported to SuSE..no awnser yet...

I highly doubt you have a virus since there are no known linux virii out in the wild at this time. Are you using ssh and or vnc and never logged someone out?

I've seen this too in kde. When I've checked what processes are running, some are mine, others are root. That should explain the 2 users.

I think i get it now, i typed w -f

says, i`m logged on tty :0 and pts/0... i don`t know what this means..
but it`s ok, i now have something to puzzle...
stil leaves the question what i did to log on two different places???

Originally posted by guilluame@Aug 2 2004, 20:37

says, i`m logged on tty* :0 and pts/0... i don`t know what this means..

The ':0' is the the original text console where you initially logged in to start your X session. The 'pts/0' is a pseudo terminal that is open when you start an x-terminal like a shell using the program 'konsole'. My guess is that you started konsole and and typed in 'w -f'. It is that shell in the konsole that shows up as 'pts/0', so you have nothing to worry about

If you start another shell for example, you will see three consoles logged in with your username. Also you can cross check with the login time shown in the 'w -f' command it is roughly about the time you started a shell. You should be concerned only if the number of open consoles is more than the number of currently open shells plus one (for the :0 terminal).

:0 console Mon15 ?xdm? 1:04m 0.01s -:0
pts/0 - Mon15 13:23m 0.00s 1.51s kdeinit: kwr


these two are logged in both under my login name, so after reading posts, the second one is the one that wasn`t there bofore????????

wel i had to do an fresh install, back to one user again, till i upgraded to kde 3.2.3, now I back to two users again, WOW