As a system administrator, you may want to look for various information on your workstation or server system, such as how long the system has been running. This way, you can keep track of the system resources and optimize based on your usage. Unfortunately, the
Recently, we wrote a detailed article on how to check a user’s login history in Linux to track user activity for a particular investigation. Unfortunately, the command mentioned in that article can’t show the log of a user’s failed login attempt; it only shows the
A Linux server is operated by multiple users who can login and logout at any given time without any restriction (of course, they should have the proper privileges). In an occasion like a data breach, you might want to track user activity to investigate the
Want to find out all the users who logged into your system? Don’t raise your finger; raise your pinky instead. Confused about what I am talking about? Let me explain what I mean. In Linux, there are numerous tools to show you all the logged-in
If you are aware of the Linux file structure, then you might already be aware of the “/var/log” directory that is responsible for keeping the system related logs. You can easily list the content of this directory using the ls command. Output: As you can
The finger is an external command-line tool that can be used to list all the logged-in users on a remote machine or server, like “w” or “who” commands. This tool is also referred to as a “user information lookup program”, as it provides you with
Have you ever been curious to know who is connected to the remote machine or server you have been working on? I mean, who doesn’t want to do that? Look, listing all the user accounts in your Linux system is quite an easy task, but
The uptime command is one of the many resourceful Linux utilities for sysadmins that is capable of telling the system boot related information like the current time, the uptime (in days and hours), the number of users currently logged on to the system, and the
The who command is a built-in Linux utility that shows a list of users who are currently logged on to the Linux system. In this article, you will learn how to use this command and what options it has to offer (with practical examples). Tutorial
The w command is a built-in Linux utility that allows you to list logged-in users on your system, including additional information about them. This includes their username, the terminal devices (TTY) they are using, the remote host or IP address they have connected from, the
The logname command gives you the username of the currently logged-in user by reading the “/var/run/utmp” file, which is identical to the whoami command with one difference. Stick with this article to learn the difference between the logname and whoami commands, the usage of the
The whoami (concatenated of the strings “who,” “am,”, “i” as whoami) is a Linux command line utility that prints the username associated with the current effective user ID. It comes in handy, especially while writing the shell script, like fetching the username within the script
