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I have a debian server with three acounts, root, myself (tobbe) and my colleague (chrille). When I first logged in (via ssh) and ran the command users I got:

root tobbe chrille

An hour later (installing git, phpmyadmin, ruby etc etc...) I'm hearing from my friend that there's multiple users with the same name, running users again I get:

tobbe tobbe tobbe chrille

3 tobbe, 1 chrille and no root.

Thinking it's weird but keeps editing and doing stuff, by running the same command I'm now getting:

tobbe tobbe tobbe tobbe tobbe tobbe

That being 6 tobbe, no root or chrille. What is happening? Oh and I've been logged into tobbe all the time. I have no idea what's happening :(

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Please read man users. The command lists who is logged on. If you're logged on with multiple sessions, it will likely list the same user multiple times. Try the who command. – Bacon Bits Jun 12 '11 at 21:59
Oh ok thank you! I'm probably doing something wrong when I'm signing out, isn't logout the correct way? – tbleckert Jun 13 '11 at 12:36
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Also you should make that answer so I can accept it :) – tbleckert Jun 13 '11 at 12:36
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Please read man users. The command lists who is logged on. If you're logged on with multiple sessions, it will likely list the same user multiple times. Try the who command.

logout (or Ctrl+D) is the correct way to log out, but sessions may not disappear for some time, depending on your ssh_config (try man ssh_config).

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