Re: [webmin-l] Login notifications

"Jamie Cameron" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webmin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/May/2016 10:39 Teknoskillz <[email protected]> wrote ..
> I know probably there is a log file someplace where this can be found out, 
> but I have seen some php and other scripts tell you your last login, and the 
> IP addy , for security reasons. I think this may be a good feature for 
> webmin , perhaps on the system information area, or on the main webmin pane 
> or underneath the [ red ] logout button.
> 
> When you log into an ssh session in most Linux distros you tend to see:
> 
> [ Last login: Sat Apr 30 10:21:03 2016 from 
> c-99-77-34-180.hsd1.we.domain.net ]
> 
> ...telling you your last login so you can tell if by chance there was a 
> login from an otherwise unusual location.
> 
> Just throwing it out as a sugguestion as this might me some useful security 
> reinforcement measures that you can see as soon as your webmin page loads. 
> Perhaps an option.

That's actually a pretty good idea - I know gmail does this as a way to tell
users about potentially suspicious logins. I'll look into adding it in a 
future release.

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