Comment # 21 on bug 948773 from Thorsten Kukuk

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #20)
> Which other tool?

All the ones reading utmp.

> 'who' is supposed to tell me who is logged in - not how many terminals a
> user has open

the behavior of who in the last 20 years was different.


> you did not answer the question why gnomesu should not be allowed to make
> use of pam_wheel - it is not started as a terminal and would thus not be
> required to register in utmp.

Since I never wrote that gnomesu should not be allowed to make use of
pam_wheel, I cannot answer that.

Between, pam_wheel's 'use_uid' option has a complete different behavior as the
default use of utmp and is no replacement.