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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting User Logging Post 302886883 by Neo on Tuesday 4th of February 2014 06:38:50 AM
Old 02-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by @dagio
Generally i think is usefull to have it specially in environments where many users uses the same account to login to the server, i know is not safe, but happened a lot, specially in test systems.
Well, sorry to inform you but you are wrong.

I have worked in many test, development and production environments in both big and small companies.

Never, one time, did any company permit a single login for multiple users. Never.

It is a violation of most company policies to do this and any company or system admin who would permit this is in the wrong job; as it is a basic, very basic, duty of a system admin to insure that there is one login per person, and an audit trait for each user; especially if the users have superuser privileges.

If a sys admin worked for me that insisted on a single login for multiple users, I would simply fire them immediately.

I'm going to close this thread, because we have already advised the OP on what he should do and why he should do it; and it's best we set an example of what are "best practices" and "acceptable practices" versus supporting bad ideas which are against policy at most companies.
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LASTLOGIN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      LASTLOGIN(8)

NAME
lastlogin -- indicate last login time of users SYNOPSIS
lastlogin [-f file] [-rt] [user ...] DESCRIPTION
The lastlogin utility will list the last login session of each specified user, or for all users by default. Each line of output contains the user name, the tty from which the session was conducted, any hostname, and the start time for the session. If more than one user is given, the session information for each user is printed in the order given on the command line. Otherwise, informa- tion for all users is printed. By default, the entries are sorted by user name. The lastlogin utility differs from last(1) in that it only prints information regarding the very last login session. The last login database is never turned over or deleted in standard usage. The following options are available: -f file Open last login database file instead of the system-wide database. -r Print the entries in reverse sorted order. -t Sort the elements by last login time, instead of user name. FILES
/var/log/utx.lastlogin last login database SEE ALSO
last(1), getutxent(3), ac(8) AUTHORS
John M. Vinopal wrote this program in January 1996 and contributed it to the NetBSD project. BSD
June 6, 2011 BSD
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