username problem

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <578 at proxftl.UUCP> aaron at proxftl.UUCP (Aaron Zimmerman) writes:
>I have a curious problem on my 3b1...

>$ who am i
>aaron      w4           Aug 12 08:01
>$ passwd
>Changing password for LOGIN

This means:

	1) You have more than one getty on /dev/window.
	2) You are currently logged in on the 2nd (or 3rd ...) window getty.
	3) The 1st window getty is idle (not logged in)

The passwd command is calling getlogin() or cuserid() which, upon noticing
that you are logged in on a window, searches /etc/utmp for the FIRST entry
for ANY window.  It finds the "LOGIN" process before it finds your "aaron"
entry and returns that.

It's an unfortunate side-effect of multiple console gettys.  It could be
fixed, but no one's done it yet.  I doubt AT&T will fix it because the
support folks probably don't want to support the multiple gettys.  Maybe
someday someone will make a shared library patch.
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