On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Baruch Shpirer <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can run some syslog for windows daemon on your dcs and redirect to > some linux syslog daemon and parse security events for login > > Last login record in the ldap will not help you much > > Baruch > > shimi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On May 31, 2012 6:14 PM, "ik" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I need to write an application (on Linux) that checks with Active > Directory if a user is logged in, and few other details about that user. > > The only thing I do not understand, is how can I check if a user has > logged in or not. > > > > Does anyone have any experience with this issue and can shed some light, > or point me to a good documentation on the subject ? > > > > Thanks, > > Ido > > > > AFAIK, AD doesn't "know" a user is "logged in", because AD is not a login > service, rather than an information source (e.g. *can* you login or not > with the credentials provided). Also, you may be logged in to multiple > stations on the domain... which one is the important to you? How would it > know? > > You need workstations/server level info, not AD, IMHO. > > For example you could query NetBIOS via nbtstat -A ipaddr from a remote > windows machine... there should be samba equivalent (don't remember by > heart, sending this from my sgs2) > > Hope this helps... > Thank you both, I'm thinking in forcing the DC to add me a property of "login" with boolean field or something like that, because as I understand, they do know if a user is logged in. For me the number of logins is not important, only that they are logged in somewhere. > -- *Shimi* > Ido > On May 31, 2012 6:14 PM, "ik" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I need to write an application (on Linux) that checks with Active >> Directory if a user is logged in, and few other details about that user. >> The only thing I do not understand, is how can I check if a user has >> logged in or not. >> >> Does anyone have any experience with this issue and can shed some light, >> or point me to a good documentation on the subject ? >> >> Thanks, >> Ido >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >>
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