Re: ssh login tracking

[wagnerc@plebeian.com (Chris Wagner)]

I would do it based on the syslog.  You can have a perl script that stays
running that keeps reading an appropriate log file and sends the email when
it sees the appropriate sshd: line.  Think of it as a smart tail -f.  If you
do a search you can find some examples of the tail functionality.

At 12:09 AM 7/14/05 -0500, stargazer@rodolico.org wrote:
>I need to be able to have an e-mail sent anytime an ssh connection
>is made and, preferably, when the session closes. I have tried using
>/etc/profile to do this, but it doesn't seem to work. I need it to
>be global, but I see nothing in the ssh documentation that allows me
>to execute a program on connection.






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