topic Re: Email notification on interactive logins? in Operating System - HP-UX

Email notification on interactive logins?

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:13:12 GMT

Hi,

suppose a host that only needs interactive login for maintainance purposes (estimate is something like 3 logins per month), and I'd like to make the host send out an email to the two groups of users that are allowed to log on instantly when a login occurs.

access can be via either ssh or the gsp, and I don't know where a hook for doing this exists.

I think about using the 'users' monitor in EMS, but I'm not sure if it's the right thing [tm].

Does someone have alternative ideas / experiences for me?

Florian

Re: Email notification on interactive logins?

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:26:28 GMT

Why not just put an entry in /etc/profile or the user id's .profile to send an e-mail when a login happens?

This will work no matter how the login occurrs, be it from the console (via GSP lan console or whatever) or ssh or telnet.

I have not looked at the 'users' EMS monitor, so I can't give you much insight on that.

Re: Email notification on interactive logins?

Geoff Wild — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:34:35 GMT

On my linux server I have this at the end of root's .bash_profile:

echo "tail messages..." > logfile
tail /var/log/messages >> logfile
echo "who?" >> logfile
who -u >> logfile
mail -s "ROOT SIGNING IN..." gjwild@mydomain.ca < logfile

mesg n

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Email notification on interactive logins?

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:01:34 GMT

The obvious is the hardest to see at times :)

I wanted to log every login and it's the easiest to do it in the login process :)

I put it in /etc/profile, and also check the SSH_CONNECTION and like variables.