Annie Tennis wrote:
> I had a security incident on my network on Friday afternoon (01/03).  I am
> trying to track down a user via their IP address.  When I login to the CAM,
> I am able to associate a user to the IP address but the login time occurred
> (01/04) after the incident occurred.  However, I need to be certain that
> this user is indeed the user using the IP at the time of the incident.  Is
> there a way I can look at the DHCP records?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Annie Tennis
> Security Analyst
> Franklin College
> 317.738.8148
> 
SSH into the CAS for the network segment in question, and have a look in
/var/log for the files dhcplog.*

An incident so recent would likely still be in dhcplog, but dhcplog.1,
dhcplog.2, etc will take you back five weeks at the most.

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