AULAST(8) System Administration Utilities AULAST(8)
NAME
aulast - a program similar to last
SYNOPSIS
aulast [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
aulast is a program that prints out a listing of the last logged in
users similarly to the program last and lastb. Aulast searches back
through the audit logs or the given audit log file and displays a list
of all users logged in (and out) based on the range of time in the audit
logs. Names of users and tty’s can be given, in which case aulast will
show only those entries matching the arguments.
The pseudo user reboot logs in each time the system is rebooted. Thus
last reboot will show a log of all reboots since the log file was cre-
ated.
The main difference that a user will notice is that aulast print events
from oldest to newest, while last prints records from newest to oldest.
Also, the audit system is not notified each time a tty or pty is allo-
cated, so you may not see quite as many records indicating users and
their tty's.
OPTIONS
--bad Report on the bad logins.
--debug
Print debug messages to stderr.
--extract
Write raw audit records used to create the displayed report into
a file aulast.log in the current working directory.
-f file
Use the file instead of the audit logs for input.
--proof
Print out the audit event serial numbers used to determine the
preceding line of the report. A Serial number of 0 is a place
holder and not an actual event serial number. The serial numbers
can be used to examine the actual audit records in more detail.
Also an ausearch query is printed that will let you find the au-
dit records associated with that session.
--stdin
Take audit records from stdin. The audit events must be in the
raw format.
--tty tty
Limit the report to a specific tty's activity. The names of ttys
can be abbreviated. For example, 0 is the same as tty0.
--user name
Limit the report to a specific user.
EXAMPLES
To see this month's logins
ausearch --start this-month --raw | aulast --stdin
SEE ALSO
last(1), lastb(1), ausearch(8), aureport(8).
AUTHOR
Steve Grubb
Red Hat June 2016 AULAST(8)
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