Re: Is user active or not ?

Stephen Kitchener grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Thursday 22 Sep 2011, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
>> I find myself in need of an easy way to check whether the account of a
>> remote user on the lan is active or not.
>>
>> Is there an easier way than to ssh, then grep $USER /etc/shaddow | grep !
>>
>> And is there a way to automate the ssh connection in a script ?
> 
> the commands "last" and "lastlog" as root, will show what you need I 
> believe...

I didn't know about those two; cool beans!  I just tried them out on my
machine - didn't need to be root to get a report via either of those.

                  --Dave

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