On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:52:03AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I tried to get the built-in utmp registration working, while your > approach just disable it and use sessreg instead. Any idea why the > built-in registration do not work for "all Debian Edu Squeeze > machines"? It seem to work on my laptop, so I am a bit unsure what > you mean here. According to man kdm.options the option »use-sessreg« should enable writing to utmp. That option is set by default in /etc/kde4/kdm/kdm.options but doesn't seem to work by some reason. Setting the same (?) option in kdmrc does work.
For testing I used a pxeinstalled LTSP-Server (LXDE, gdm) with kdm and kdepasswd installed additionally in the chroot. Your proposed patch didn't work for diskless workstations. In order to find out if kdm would need other writable dirs I installed both packages on the server and found that utmp wasn't updated there, too, if kdm was used instead of gdm. So I figured all machines would show the same failure. Maybe things are different if there's a complete KDE desktop installation? Wolfgang
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