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Old 10-13-2015
Description using last command
Hello Experts,

I need the description (like if user has done sudo,logging from winscp termial or ssh from other machine) using the last command.Can someone help me out please.

Thanks.
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Old 10-13-2015
last really isn't for that.

You'll either have to use something based of a user's history or use some kind of wrapper. Sudo has logging capabilities (not complete logging, but command logging anyhow).

Note: last is a database of login entries that are logged to wtmp (subnote: you can do operations on a host even interactively without showing up in wtmp).
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Old 10-13-2015
Thank you cjcox for prompt response.

Can you elaborate what do you mean wrapper?
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Old 10-13-2015
It means the user uses some sort of interface which logs, instead of the prompt directly.
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