On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Thara <[email protected]> wrote:
> Experts,
> Any script that will monitor user account login/logout time on his/her
> workstation? or software that will automatically detect the user account who
> logged in to that workstation.
All unix-like systems have a rudimentary form of login monitoring in
the form of the lastlog and wtmp log files. See 'man last' and 'man
lastlog' for the details of what they do. They probably don't do
everything you want, but you do already have them, so you might as
well take a look.
--Levi
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