[NTLUG:Discuss] ssh login

[Kenneth Loafman]

If I kill the bash session associated with the sshd, the session
terminates and the user is logged out.  If I kill the sshd instead, I
see some of the same behavior, login survives, but only until the next
reboot.

So, kill the session, not the daemon.  Just a workaround.

...Ken

> TJ Davis wrote:
> 
> so do you have a solution as to how to fix the problem?  The first and
> only suggestion did not work.
> 
> T.J. Davis
> Southwestern A/G University
> Information Technology
> tjdavis at sagu.edu
> (972) 937-4010 ext. 1255
> 1 Timothy 4:12
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MadHat [mailto:madhat at unspecific.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 3:18 AM
> To: NTLUG-Discuss
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] ssh login
> 
> On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 06:47, Greg Edwards wrote:
> > I've seen this on my machines as well.  I've even seen the login
> stay
> > registered after a reboot.  Never did try to figure it out.
> 
> This was actually answered, but just to make sure...  when you log
> into
> a box, it makes an entry into the /var/run/utmp (may be different on
> different distributions).  When you log out, another entry is made.
> If
> you do not log out, but lose your connection, this will cause the
> logout
> entry to be not registered.  Also you can have your shell still
> running
> at times, if it did not receive the proper signal.  This can also
> traverse reboots since the logout entry will still not exist (not the
> shell still running).
> 
> utmp (and wtmp, the backup usually located in /var/log) contain info
> also used by the 'last' command to say when people were logged in and
> how long they were on and other bits of info like when the machine was
> 
> rebooted (and the kernel version often).  I prefer 'w 'to 'who', as it
> 
> adds some more info about the idle time and what they are running by
> default, but it still relies on the utmp file.
> 
> >
> > TJ Davis wrote:
> >
> > > command prompt.  To test this I logged into ssh remotely as
> "tjdavis"
> > > and killed the daemon while logged in.  I went into the server
> room and
> > > typed "who" and sure enough it shows tjdavis to still be logged
> in.
> > > Anyone know how to fix this.  I hope I made sense.  If you need
> > > clarification let me know.
> > >
> > > T.J. Davis
> >
> >
> > --
> > Greg Edwards
> > New Age Software, Inc.
> > http://www.nas-inet.com
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
> --
> MadHat at Unspecific.com
> "Anyone who understands Linux/Unix, really understands the universe.
>  Anyone who understands Windows, really understands Windows."
>           - Richard Thieme, DefCon 10, 2002
> 
> _______________________________________________
> http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss