[LBo] who is logged into my system

[Andrew Henry]

Jim Westbrook wrote:
> Try also:  ps aux |grep <username>
>
> I find that lsof usually gives me a lot more info than I need/want.
>
> JimW
>
> Michael Cole wrote:
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>> lsof
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>> 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..
>>
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>> On Monday 19 February 2007 2:45:41 am Andrew Henry wrote:
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>>> 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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Thanks for the replies...the lsof is just what I needed.  Any idea why
who -a doesn't show as SSH user as being logged in?

--andrew

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