Re: Check when a user last logged in?

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008, Jeff Hyman wrote:
Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:22:26PM -0400):
| Jeff Hyman typed (on Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:11:49AM -0400):
| | Assasin.x@xxxxxxxxx typed (on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:18:40PM -0700):
| | | I'm trying to make a script that will remove/point out or delete old
| | | user accounts. The problem is, I have no idea how to check when a
| | | user last logged in!
| | |
| | | Checking the modification date of the home folder will not work
| | | because there are many users that use the same home folder. I had
| | | heard SCO has some sort of built in way of checking for this, or that
| | | there is a unix command that can do it.
| | |
| | | Anybody out there able to help me out?
| | |
| | | Thanks in advance!
| |
| |
| | # last user_name | head -2
| | ... or ...
| | # last user_name | head -2 | tail -1
|
| Since the original poster is looking for "old user accounts", the 'last'
| command is useless, because it will only provide login data for the
| last one to seven days -- unless one has changed root's crontab to run
| /etc/cleanup at some time other than early Sunday morining.

Hello JP,

Interesting.... looks like I turned that OFF.
I personally like being able to use 'last' and go back in history.
Things do pop up from time-to-time especially around payroll
conflicts.... but thanks for the input.

If I were doing this, I would put something in the system
/etc/profile that added a record to a database of some kind,
postgresql, mysql, or a simple hash (bdb, gdbm, etc.) containing
the username, time, tty, and IP address if available. Then it
would be easy to simply select on usrname, max(logintime) to see
the last time somebody logged in.

Going a step further, an appropriate ``trap'' statement that
would add a record on logout could give more information.

Bill
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