Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507021
Title:
Last login time should be shown also in graphical environments
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The UNIX shell has for ages shown to users their last login time after
a successful login time. The line is e.g.: #Last login: Web Sep 23
10:57:34 EEST 2009 on tty1". This is a good security feature since it
allows the user to discover if his account has been accessed at a time
the user himself knows for sure he didn't log in. Command 'last' will
show the last logins. Man page 'wtmp' will tell more about the
feature.
At the moment there is nothing similar in a graphical environment. If
somebody is using my account, I wouldn't probably notice it..
I don't know what the correct place to implement this is (GDM, Gnome,
separate script?), but some part of the login process should
a) record the login to /var/log/wtmp
b) read the last login for the current user an flash it as a notification for
5-10 seconds
Additionally it would be nice if there was an graphical equivalent
graphical tool to the 'last' command. However that requires more work.
I guess the two things suggested above could be done with just a few
lines of code - thus I made this bug report.
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