Re: tracking logins

Subject: Re: tracking logins
From: Cliff Crawford (cjc26@cornell.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 10:36:59 EDT

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* R Cent <cent@u.washington.edu> menulis:
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the best way to determine the last time a Mac user has
> logged into a linux server? Logging in through Netatalk does
> not record information that the "finger" command can show.
> Thanks.

Each login is recorded in /var/log/messages, and looks something like
this:

Apr 25 10:04:08 <hostname> afpd[30447]: ASIP session:548(2) from
<ip address>:49155(0)
Apr 25 10:04:08 <hostname> afpd[30447]: dhx login: <username>
Apr 25 10:04:08 <hostname> PAM_pwdb[30447]: (netatalk) session opened for user
<username> by (uid=0)
Apr 25 10:04:08 <hostname> afpd[30447]: login <username> (uid 135, gid 111)

(Where <hostname> is the hostname of the linux server, <username> is who
logged in, and <ip address> is the ip address of the mac they logged in
from.) So you could write a perl script or something to grep
/var/log/messages for the user in question.

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