[ale] bogus idel time for user

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 10:42:32 EST 2012


check the output of the last command. The who command shows currently
logged in and last shows current and previous logins.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:34 AM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

> Anyone know how a machine can get a bogus idel time for a user? I have a
> problem with users getting kicked off their machines for being idel for too
> long. Problem is, they just logged on. If I finger user, it shows he logged
> on today but his idle time is 39 days. That's a problem because I have our
> machines configured to log people out if they are idel for more than 4
> days.
> How can a user have been idel for 39 days when they just logged on? I
> thought maybe he was logged in more than once but who shows just one login
> for him.  Below is the output from the who and the finger commands. I
> modified it slightly to hide the user's actual identity.
>
> # who
> johnsmith     tty8         Jan 30 08:32 (:0)
> # finger johnsmith
> Login: johnsmith                              Name: John Smith
> Directory: /fac/johnsmith                    Shell: /bin/tcsh
> Office:  555-5555,  555 Van Vleck
> On since Mon Jan 30 08:32 (CST) on tty8 from :0
>   39 days idle
>     (messages off)
> No mail.
> No Plan.
>
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