[mosh-devel] mosh and utmp on athena.dialup.mit.edu

[Anton Lundin]

On 23 February, 2017 - Jonathon Weiss wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Following up on a zephyr conversation I had with Keith and others
> about a week ago, I was wondering why mosh logins don't appear in the
> output of "who" or "w" on the athena.dialup.mit.edu servers.  We got
> as far as confirming that utempter was setgid utmp:
> 
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 10104 Oct  5  2012 /usr/lib/utempter/utempter
> 
> oh, these files also appear to me ot have reasonable permissions:
> 
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 190080 Feb 23 17:47 /var/run/utmp
> 
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 2704128 Feb 23 17:45 /var/log/wtmp
> 
> -rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 992640 Feb 23 17:25 /var/log/btmp
> 
> Anything you can suggest to check?  Anyhting I can do to help debug?
> 

Which os?

In case of linux, which distro and version?

Which build of mosh?

Which package or built how from what source?

How what does config.h look like?


After reading some source my guess is that HAVE_UTEMPTER isn't defined.


//Anton

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