SSH authorized keys login

[Mike Burger]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Jithesh wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 03:56 am, Manuel Arstegui Ramirez wrote:
> >  --- Jithesh <jitzpop at hotpop.com> escribi: > Hi all,
> >
> > > In order to avoid ssh asking password, I have added
> > > about 30 users into
> > > my authorized keys list. Is there a way by which you
> > > can find which user
> > > logged in ?
> >
> > Try finger (as root)
> > Cheers
> 
> > You don't need to be root to do that. 'w' also gives you that and more
> > (check for yourself).
> 
> You got it all wrong or maybe my question wasn't conveyed properly. The
> last command gives the users who logged in. Is there a way by which we
> can find who logged in with the ssh key?
> 
> Thnks in Adv.

"tail -XXX /var/log/messages | less"  Replace XXX with a number, and then 
peruse the output for logins and the word "publickey".

Alternatively, you could run logwatch, which will output, nightly, who 
logged in via ssh and how they authenticated.
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