Bug#240279: gnome-terminal: it won't show me in the 'who' list

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 16:21:02 -0300, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
> It used to work, I don't know why it's not working. I tried setting its
> sgid bit and chgrp'ing it to utmp, but gtk applications can't run with
> suid/sgid bits set.

Note there is also a "Edit -> Current Profile -> Title and Command -> Update
utmp/wtmp records when command is launched" setting.

> How was it working before?

Frankly I don't know - I tried to follow gnome-terminal's code, but failed
to figure it out.

> Are the permissions of /var/run wrong here?
> 
> lofofora@cerberus:~[0]$ ls -l /var/run/utmp
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     utmp        21888 2004-03-26 16:18 /var/run/utmp

These ownership and permissions are fine.

Ray
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