Thanks Sumit.  Rather bizzarely my workstation has no /var/run/utmp file.
I rebooted yesterday - you would think a file like that would be created at boot time if it did not exist. Weird!


On 4 July 2018 at 08:54, Sumit Bose <sbose@redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:11:28AM +0200, John Hearns wrote:
> It seems bizarre, but the who and w utilities say there are no users on my
> system.
> My account  is an Active Direcotry account and sssd is running.
>
> johe@ibis:~$ who
>
> johe@ibis:~$ w
>  10:09:26 up 16:47,  0 users,  load average: 0.60, 0.59, 0.48
> USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
>
> I guess this is known behaviour?

I would suggest to run the commands with strace to see what the
command tries to do. Iirc the user name is actually read from the utmp
file and SSSD is not called at all here. So the issue might already
happen earlier that the needed entry isn't written to utmp.

HTH

bye,
Sumit

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