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I was wondering if anyone had a script that would display the last time a user logged into a particular machine. I know about the "last" command, but it gives too much info.... I just wanted to know the last time a user used his/her id. ANy help would be greatly appreciated.


Ryan

last -1 <username> will show the last time the user logged in. Is this what you were looking for or is that still too much information?

I wanted to produce a text file that had each users last login info in it. My script is as follows, but it produces some weird errors. Any obvious mistakes?

#!/sbin/sh
for i in `niscat passwd.org_dir | cut -f1 -d":"`
do
#echo
echo `last $i | head -1 | awk '{print $1" "$4" "$5" "$6}'` >> recentlogin.txt
#echo
done

Here is a script that works for me.


find /home -name .lastlogin -mtime +60 > /tmp/lastlogin.rpt {} \;
cat /tmp/lastlogin.rpt awk -F: '{ print $1, $4 }' >> /tmp/lastlogin.info

or something like that.

You can make this better by creating a "for loop" to copy each user info right after the info on the .lastlogin file that would probably work better than this little bit.

Enjoy!

You can modify this to capture data from the passwd file and associate it with the file owner which is the user.