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# 1  
Old 10-03-2008
Log Information about login/logout of any users
Hi to all,
i want configure my solaris 10 machine to log all login,logout and "su" in a particularly file. How can i do it?
Now i enable auth.* in syslog.conf but the informations are written in a confused mode...

Thanks
# 2  
Old 10-03-2008
Did you touch the /var/adm/loginlog file? :/
# 3  
Old 10-03-2008
I create a file now with root:sys permission but in this file if i try to execute a login/logout i have nothing.

Thanks
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Old 10-03-2008
check it out here..
Last Failed Login
# 5  
Old 10-08-2008
add following entry to /etc/syslog.conf

auth.notice;auth.error;auth.info /var/adm/loginlogs

Create logfile
touch /var/adm/loginlogs

Bounce syslog
pkill -HUP syslogd
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