Re: Who is logged into this box?
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/1/11 steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com>:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> On a machine that I have root access to, how can I see who is logged
>>> into the machine? Specifically, I suspect that a malicious entity is
>>> logging on in a compromised account over SSH, even while the account's
>>> user is sitting at the machine and logged in, so if I can catch two
>>> simultaneous login sessions (one on the physical hardware, one over
>>> ssh) then I can be sure. Thanks.
>>>
>> I believe just type w in a command line should dump all users.
>>
>
> What ever happened to long, complicated commands?!?
>
> Thanks!
>
ok lol
w -h -u -s -f -o >users.txt
i often wondered where some of these commands got their name from
myself. w? and that is short for user in what way??
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