'w' Shows 2 users lists one

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/9/1 John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com>:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>> I don't really know, because I'd never heard of 'w' until you asked, but
>> what does "ps a" show you?  You should see tty1-tty6, which are running
>> either /sbin/getty, meaning they're waiting for a login, or some program
>> (usually /bin/login) indicating a logged-in user.  If it's
>> running /bin/login, it will also have at the least a process running a
>> login shell.  Then you'll have tty7 - and possibly 8-12 - running X (as
>> root), on which your desktop users are logged in.  The "pts" sessions
>> shouldn't matter unless they're SSH session - they're terminals inside your
>> destkop.  'w' will show the ssh sessions as "from" somewhere else, anyway.
>>
> 'ps a' shows tty1~6 as expected and it shows tty7 as /usr/bin/X
> (graphical login)and 2 pts/0 running '/bin/bash' and 'ps a'. It doesn't
> list who is running any of the commands,

"ps au" will give the users.