[Bug 1029048] Re: 'who' and 'users' failes to report the GUI user

[Paul Crawford]

Of course, this bug might really be down to Gnome/Unity failing to
declare the user as logged in, but the fault _appears_ to be the core
utilities simply not seeing anyone logged in using the main
keyboard/mouse/display.

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Title:
  'who' and 'users' failes to report the GUI user

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  On Ubuntu 12.04 the utility 'who' fails to report the presence of a
  user logged in using the Unity or Gnome fallback GUI.

  For example, if I log in as "psz" to the 10.04 machine in use by "arz"
  and I run 'who' in the ssh terminal I get something like this:

  $ who
  arz      tty7         2012-06-13 11:05 (:0)
  arz      pts/0        2012-07-25 15:34 (:0.0)
  arz      pts/1        2012-07-25 10:43 (:0.0)
  arz      pts/2        2012-07-19 17:58 (:0.0)
  psz      pts/3        2012-07-25 19:20 (pszpc)

  Where as if I remotely log in to the 12.04 box with another user
  logged in, I get this:

  $ who
  psz      pts/1        2012-07-25 19:21 (pszpc)

  The same issue also applies to 'top' as it only reports one user
  logged in (i.e. ignores the GUI user) and 'users' also fails to see
  the GUI logged in user.

  I expect the core utilities to tell me if there is a user USING the
  computer, otherwise I could be tempted to reboot the machine remotely
  after making changes, etc, which is going to make the logged-in user
  very unhappy indeed!

  System details:

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  Release:	12.04

  $ apt-cache policy coreutils
  coreutils:
    Installed: 8.13-3ubuntu3
    Candidate: 8.13-3ubuntu3
    Version table:
   *** 8.13-3ubuntu3 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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