Re: 'who' lists a non-existent user

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden writes:

>   On a GNU/linux under Red Hat 9, with coreutils-4.5.3-19, 'who' lists
> a user who is no longer logged in :

>   I am sending this report to the addres found in the man page for 'who' ;
> if it is not the appropriate address, please let me know.

I'd guess that this is a problem with the file that stores the names
of the users that are logged in (/var/run/utmp on my Debian GNU/Linux
box, perhaps somewhere else on Red Hat).  If so, it suggests a problem
with ssh or some other program like that, not with 'who' itself.  You
can test this theory by inspecting the file in question.