Redhat and Who Command?

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System Administrator <admin@castle.cdsnet.com> wrote:

: Hi,

: /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd login

: Does not show the user as logged in at all. Anyone have any ideas why this
: is happening?

Hi,

sorry that I don't know the answer to the problem - I can just report that
after two days of dejanews and FAQ reading I can NEVER get w to show the
actual username. I am adhering to each and every recommendation I have
seen (correct PPP options etc), so I think that users like myself are
entitled to believe that they are not stupid.

(Since the dial-in server is a bit crucial, I won't try to compile PPP
manually and spend a lot of time fiddling with it, but I am sure this is
where the problem is.)

I am using RedHat 5.2 also. In order to see who is actually on the system,
I have resorted to two simple scripts in /etc/ppp :

  [pschneid@/etc/ppp]# cat auth-down
  #!/bin/sh
  # script to log ppp usage
  logger -p local0.info -t "PPP Logout by" $2 " on " $1 $4

  [pschneid@/etc/ppp]# cat auth-up
  #!/bin/sh
  # script to log ppp usage
  logger -p local0.info -t "PPP Login by" $2 " on " $1 $4

Of course, you need to configure /etc/syslogd.conf to something like

  # PPP log
  local0.*                                                /var/log/ppp.log

You can then have a look (eg with tail /var/log/ppp.log) to see the
latest logins:

  Jun  5 15:42:28 xxx PPP Login by: userA  on  ppp0 /dev/ttyM1e
  Jun  5 15:43:18 xxx PPP Logout by: userA  on  ppp0 /dev/ttyM1e
  Jun  5 16:00:40 xxx PPP Login by: userB  on  ppp0 /dev/ttyM1e
  Jun  5 16:10:50 xxx PPP Logout by: userB  on  ppp0 /dev/ttyM1e
  Jun  5 19:09:32 xxx PPP Login by: userC  on  ppp0 /dev/ttyM1e
  Jun  5 19:46:00 xxx PPP Logout by: userC  on  ppp0 /dev/ttyM1e

Hope this helps some of you,

Peter