Interesting. On tty1 I "su -" from jidanni to root, and on tty2 from root to jidanni, $ pstree -au |-login -- | `-bash | `-su,jidanni - jidanni | `-bash |-login -- | `-bash,jidanni | `-su,root - | `-bash | `-pstree -ua But who(1), w(1) don't divulge any of that. OK, no big deal.