Re: lslogins --user-accs

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On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 12:37:49AM +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> Trying out `lslogins`, noticed two problems (?) with the --user-accs option:
> 
> 1) The manpage documents --user-accs[=threshold] to override the
> "hardcoded" minimum of 1000, but the code doesn't actually /accept/ a
> parameter (it reads the actual threshold from login.defs).
> 
> 2) While not documented, --user-accs also applies the /maximum/ uid
> limit. I noticed this on a system that has "UID_MAX 19999" because
> LDAP-based accounts start at 20000, which means `lslogins -u` will show
> local users but not LDAP ones.
 
For now I have fixed the man page and removed [=threshold] and added
hint about uids ranges specified by /etc/login.defs.

Maybe the ideal solution would be to add optional parameter

    --user-accs[=min:max]
    --system-accs[=min:max]


> Also the "Last logs:" output seems to have ^A / 0x01 in random places:
> 
>   00:35:14 krenew<^A>[1295]: renewing credentials
> 
> On another system:
> 
>   Feb07/00:05 sshd[3009657]: Received disconnect from 78.60.211.195: 11:
> disconnected by user<^A>

Hmm... we read this from systemd journal by sd_journal_get_data() and
print it without any change.

    Karel

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