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send a mail on root loggin
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danielhozac
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You could probably setup something in [tt]root[/tt]'s [tt].<shell>rc[/tt] that would send an email to you. This file is read when [tt]root[/tt] logs in. //Daniel
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Or what I do is edit the root's .profile and add the following line:-
/backups/.logmein 2>&1 /dev/null
the file /backups/.logmein has the following contents:-
#!/bin/bash
email="someone@mydomain.co.uk"
Date=`/bin/date`
lastlog | mail -s "ROOT Just Logged in at $Date" $email
#end script
Then make it executable for root and every time root logs in a mail will be sent with the body containing the output of lastlog (useful to see where he/she connected from).
A similar process is useful for normal users but just grep off the username from lastlog ?
lastlog | grep fredbloggs | mail -s "Fred Bloggs Just Logged in at $Date" $email
works with "su - <user>" but not with "su <user>" for obvious reasons.
Enjoy
L.
/backups/.logmein 2>&1 /dev/null
the file /backups/.logmein has the following contents:-
#!/bin/bash
email="someone@mydomain.co.uk"
Date=`/bin/date`
lastlog | mail -s "ROOT Just Logged in at $Date" $email
#end script
Then make it executable for root and every time root logs in a mail will be sent with the body containing the output of lastlog (useful to see where he/she connected from).
A similar process is useful for normal users but just grep off the username from lastlog ?
lastlog | grep fredbloggs | mail -s "Fred Bloggs Just Logged in at $Date" $email
works with "su - <user>" but not with "su <user>" for obvious reasons.
Enjoy
L.
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