Recently i've become annoyed by a strange behaviour whilst running xdm and
serving a remote X terminal.  I'm running NetBSD-current, XFree86-3.1.1 but
have noticed this behaviour since NetBSD-0.8 and XFree-godknowswhat.  It seems
that getlogin() is returning the last login via xdm, not the current login.

Typical example that happened just today:

. user1 logs in via a remote X terminal

. user2 logs in via the console

. user1 types 'write user2'

. user2 sees 'Message from user2@somemachine.somedomain on ttypX' 

Is there any simple fix to this problem?  Perhaps an xdm configuration?


Thanks,

Glen.


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