>-----Original Message----- >From: Chauhan, Savita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:50 AM >To: Charlie Rubeor >Subject: RE: [U2][UD] - Transaction Processing > >Hi Charlie, >Does UNIX keep a user's login history somewhere, i.e. > his/her login/logout times (not just the last one, but > for some amount of period in past)? If it does, where > does it keep it and how can I see it? > >Thank you, > >Savita Chauhan, >Programmer/Analyst >x:1754 Central Texas College. >------------------------------------------- >Change is the only Constant.
That is what user accounting does. IBM has a whole book on how to manage this. I don't have access to an aix server right now, so I can't give you detailed instructions on how to set it up. A quick overview: /var/adm/utmp - keeps a list of current users /var/adm/wtmp - keeps a list of past login/logout activity /var/adm/btmp - keeps a list of bad login attempts. (This is a great place to look for the root password, btw.) To activate the process, (acctcon?) I believe that you can use smit. There are also a couple of crontab entries that monitor the free space in /var/adm. Once activated, the last and lastb commands will display information from the files listed above. We are kinda off-topic for a U2 list here. Unless someone else finds this interesting, email me directly. Or maybe the U2 community list? Hth. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
