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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, matthew green wrote:

>   Cool.  But there's definitely a reason that these programs (xterm,
>   screen, etc.) allow users to not create utmp entries.  If I'm running
>   12 xterms, and you type w, you probably don't want to see me 12 times.
>
>that's the *whole point* of this new w(1).  to show the "hidden" entries!
>   
>   It seems to me that it would work well to have w(1) default to its
>   current behavior, with a command-line option to get the complete list.
>
>i don't care about defaults, etc.  :-)  i just want this available
>on all my netbsd boxes, not just the ones i've installed it on :)

What about programs which are not traditional logins but have an option
to show up in utmp?  (xdm was recently mentioned here as an example of a
program which does this)  Doesn't this new w(1) actually provide _less_
information in that case?

At any rate, I think this should be in there as an option, possibly
requiring some sort of privilege, but I don't want to see it be the
default...

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com

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