This has been implemented as a feature in the development version of
Kubuntu 10.10.
** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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Konsole shells not registering users in utmp
https://bugs.launchpad.ne
Change affected package as the cause is in libkpty.so that belong to
kde4libs
** Package changed: kdebase (Ubuntu) => kde4libs (Ubuntu)
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Konsole shells not registering users in utmp
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/632527
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Bug
I did some research. The cause is in the package kdelib5. The library
libkpty.so
does not write records into utmp if libutempter-dev was not installed at compile
time (see kpty.cpp):
#ifdef HAVE_UTEMPTER
Q_D(KPty);
addToUtmp(d->ttyName, remotehost, d->masterFd);
Q_UNUSED(user);
#els