freebsd stable - Aug 2004 - why the command of "who" dosen't work while i login through xdm

Hello,
The version of FreeBSD I use is 4.10.

After I login the system through the xdm from a remote
machine which runs the simulated X terminal.I start
the kde enviornment in the .xsession file under the ~/
 directory. after the kde started.I open konsole of
kde(version 1.3.2) and type the command of who, and
the konsole tells me that there nobody login to the
system. neither i can see anybody has logined the
system in the local terminal.It's a surpring
phenomena.

Later, strange thing occurs again. I click the "Run
Command" in the KDE menu and start the xterm, this
time the who works correctly also can it work
correctly both in the konsole of and in the local
terminal. 

The files i have changed is the xdm-config and the
Xaccess, in the first one, I comment the line of
"DisplayManager.requestPort 0" to enable the listening
and in the last one i uncomment the asterisk * to
allow anyone login through the xdm. 
but when I login the system as root, the who works
correctly again. I don't start the kde environment,
just simply use the twm,it starts the terminal of
xterm.

What i have wrote in the .xsession is like follow:
export PATH=.:/................
export CLICOLOR="exdx......"
startkde

Could somebody tell me why these things happen? is
there any wrong with KDE?
Thank in advance.
leo

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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, [gb2312] leo wrote:
> Hello,
> The version of FreeBSD I use is 4.10.
>
> After I login the system through the xdm from a remote
> machine which runs the simulated X terminal.I start
> the kde enviornment in the .xsession file under the ~/
>  directory. after the kde started.I open konsole of
> kde(version 1.3.2) and type the command of who, and
> the konsole tells me that there nobody login to the
> system. neither i can see anybody has logined the
> system in the local terminal.It's a surpring
> phenomena.
konsole is not writing utmp entires it appears.  I'll have to check this
on my work box (which is on -CURRENT) but I think its fixed in later
versions of konsole.  The login records are a function of whatever spawns
the terminal, which is usually login(8) but in X its usually xterm.

its not fatal but can be disconcerting :)

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