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'who am i' when used on terminal displays nothing but not terminator please explain screenshots uploadedTerminal Screenshot

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  • @Terrance I think the question is why one of them apparently writes an entry to the utmp log and the other doesn't... possibly related Bug 747046 - cleanup pty.c
    – steeldriver
    Apr 6, 2018 at 15:04
  • You are correct, and yes it is a bug in gnome-terminal that will not be fixed.
    – Terrance
    Apr 6, 2018 at 15:06
  • u mean there is nothing difference and it is only due to a bug in gnome-terminal??
    – akgnitd
    Apr 6, 2018 at 17:46
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    I tried filing a bug for gnome-terminal not running whoami or who am i and that is where I found out that they are not going to fix the gnome-terminal not showing those commands. However, from my understanding if you install screen or byobu and run those in the gnome-terminal, whoami, w and who am i all work fine. The bug: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1747198
    – Terrance
    Apr 7, 2018 at 6:23
  • In gnome-terminal 3.22.1, who am i works
    – dedunu
    Jun 16, 2018 at 16:57

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The fact that who -m (or equivalently who am i) does not work in gnome-terminal is due to a bug (or some would say a feature) in gnome-terminal. Specifically, gnome-terminal fails to write an appropriate entry to /var/run/utmp, which is what /usr/bin/who looks at. The people in charge of gnome-terminal decided, perhaps for good reasons or bad ones, not to support this feature any more. See their discussion here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747046

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