Inconsistent utx.active?

[Vlad Galu]

On Friday, February 24, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello Vlad,
> 
> * Vlad Galu <dudu at dudu.ro (mailto:dudu at dudu.ro)>, 20120224 23:54:
> > [1330014380.652067 -- Thu Feb 23 17:26:20 2012] user process: id="4f86d023f250d3c9" pid="39012" user="dudu" line="pts/0" host="A.B.C.D"
> > [1330014398.177818 -- Thu Feb 23 17:26:38 2012] user process: id="269d75b37f295346" pid="39221" user="dudu" line="pts/1" host="A.B.C.D"
> > [1330085459.796787 -- Fri Feb 24 13:10:59 2012] user process: id="d026e8e5c0648ec2" pid="38093" user="dudu" line="pts/0" host="A.B.C.D"
> > [1330122640.813570 -- Fri Feb 24 23:30:40 2012] user process: id="dd8d3dff2f3002a0" pid="82959" user="dudu" line="pts/0" host="X.Y.Z.T"
> > [1330122493.638088 -- Fri Feb 24 23:28:13 2012] user process: id="92b73279a543d99f" pid="73085" user="dudu" line="pts/1" host="X.Y.Z.T"
> > [1330122498.444614 -- Fri Feb 24 23:28:18 2012] user process: id="c0f3c404a3ca8565" pid="73573" user="dudu" line="pts/2" host="X.Y.Z.T"
> > [1330122634.538515 -- Fri Feb 24 23:30:34 2012] dead process: id="fea56df5dde26e4d" pid="76338"
> 
> 
> 
> You mentioned in a previous email that these entries belong to SSH
> sessions. Are you sure about this? The identifiers seem to contain
> randomly generated data, just like pam_lastlog(8) does. OpenSSH uses
> identifiers based on the TTY name, like so:
> 
> > [1330124273.955165 -- Fri Feb 24 23:57:53 2012] user process: id="7074732f30000000" pid="15880" user="ed" line="pts/0" host="m.fxq.nl (http://m.fxq.nl)"
> 
> 0x7074732f30 is equal to "pts/0".
> 
> Maybe they're generated by some different login service or you've
> configured PAM/OpenSSH/etc. in a non-default way?
> 

Sigh, you are right. I had UseLogin set to yes in sshd_config. Sorry for the noise and thanks!