You could try to substitute who for w which works for non-root users under
the medium security install; however, it isn't quite as detailed as w ... see
man who. You must be at a higher security level then medium because w works
for my users. Did you try changing the permissions of w? You can either
change the group setting to users (or some other group) or change w so that
"others" can execute the file. See man chown and man chmod ... or for a point
and click method use kfm. As a matter of security, I think I would change the
group to users instead of making w executable by anyone which would include
potential crackers. HTH.
Larry
Mark wrote:
> I have a few questions, was wondering if anyone could help?
>
> W only works as root. I want all users to see who is on. They can do this
> using Finger, but I'd rather have W work as I'm so used to it. It displays
> the header for W, but no username or user info. I tried changing the
> permissions on the utmp file, but to no avail.
>
> Finger Command does not retain info once a user logs out. So when I finger
> user, it says they have never logged in. I'm not sure on this one either.
>
> And finally, YTalk, it runs, but will not contact the other user that I'm
> trying to talk to. How do I get this to run? Is this a process that has to
> be started?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
> Thanks
>
> Mark
