[K12OSN] When keeping login records...

[Petre Scheie]

If you don't want people to connect via ftp on a given day, the best thing would be to 
run 'service vsftpd stop' and shutdown the daemon.  Since this can only be done by root, 
putting the teacher and/or sub into /etc/sudoers and putting an icon on the desktop that 
calls 'sudo service vsftpd stop' would seem to be the easiest way.

Petre

Alan Hodson wrote:
> Looks very doable - thanks Petre.
> What would it take to turn this into a small application (who-log) that
> could be turned on and off as needed? I am thinking of a teacher that
> knows s/he is going to be absent, tels the sub not to allow anybody on
> the system, but then has the undeniable evidence if the request is
> disregarded...not that we don't trust subs or kids.
> Cheers
> Alan
> El Paso TX
> -=o=-
> 
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:54 -0600, Petre Scheie wrote:
>> How about a script that greps for today's date in /var/log/messages--I think that's 
>> where vsftpd logs to--and pipe that to awk for records where field 5 equals vsftpd ($5 
>> /vsftpd/), and pipe that to awk to select the user ID from the respective field, and 
>> redirect the output to append to a file.  Something like this:
>>
>> TODAY=$(date '+%b %e')
>> grep "^$TODAY" /var/log/messages | awk '$5 ~ /vsftpd/ {print $10}'
>>
>> I'm assuming here that the user ID is in field 10 in the vsftpd records 
>> /var/log/messages; I don't run vsftpd anywhere so I can't check it.  Just change the 
>> variable number to match what is in /var/log/messages.
>>
>> Petre
>>
>> ahodson at elp.rr.com wrote:
>>> Hi list
>>>
>>> I am curious to learn from experienced users, when individual login
>>> records need to be kept, what are the most popular ways of doing so? I
>>> am in need of a daily list of who logged into a server (via ftp) so I
>>> can back up their work.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Alan Hodson
>>> El Paso ISD, TX
>>> http://links.episd.org/
>>> -=o=-
>>>
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