last命令显示出unknown用户究竟是因为啥?

这问题是群里有朋友发了一张照片看到的:

出现问题第一时间当然是百度或者谷歌,结果还是查到了,原来是gdm作怪,也可以认为是bug

https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?283842-who-shows-unknown-user

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31859781/unknown-user-is-always-logged-in-my-centos-linux-machine

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/375781/who-shows-unknown-user-logged-in-whats-going-on

That user is created (probably due to a bug) by GDM. It's not really that there is a "unknown" user logged into the system, but it's due to GDM writing a bad entry to /var/run/utmp

原文地址:https://www.cnblogs.com/jasonwu/p/13530649.html