You have last login, but not sure it would be much usefull to what you are trying to accomplish here
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:53 AM, ik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> > -- Thanks and best regards Baruch Shpirer Cell (IL) +972 52 602 6643 Cell (CA) +1 647 898 7602 Skype baruch_shpirer
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