[Klug-general] Auditing SSH login sessions

Colin McCarthy binarysignal at gmail.com
Fri May 27 13:40:16 UTC 2011


On 27 May 2011 14:07, Paul Littlefield <info at paully.co.uk> wrote:

> On 27/05/11 12:52, Colin McCarthy wrote:
>
>> What does the pts/* stand for?
>
>
> It literally stand for 'pseudo terminal slave' and means a remote session.
>
> If you were standing in front of the keyboard and monitor and logged in you
> would see 'tty'...
>
> paully   tty7         Fri May 27 12:19   still logged in    :0
> paully   tty7         Fri May 27 08:26 - 08:57  (00:30)     :0


Cheers. I dont seem to have a /var/log/auth.log file which you asked about
in your first email.

Running 'last -a |grep useraccount' in /var/log/audit/ has given me results
for the last 30 days. Which is want I needed.

Thanks again all.

Colin
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