[LBo] who is logged into my system

Michael Cole colemichae at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 02:17:30 CET 2007


lsof

try this command as superuser or setup your sudo to allow this command you can 
then see the actuall files in use by a user, or process..



On Monday 19 February 2007 2:45:41 am Andrew Henry wrote:
> How can I find out who is logged into my system remotely and what they
> are *currently* doing?
>
> I have just finished chapter 4 and know of the who command ('who -a' and
> 'who -u') but I have a family member who logs in via SSH using WinSCP
> and 'who -a' does not show them as logged in.  Why is this?  auth.log
> registers that they have logged in.
>
> How can I see what they are currently doing if it's just IO (file
> uploading).  Does this show in ps in some way?  All I can see is that
> they have an sshd & sftp-server process running.
>
> Thanks,
> --andrew
>
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Regards
Michael Cole


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