On Monday 04 July 2005 13:49, Jeff Epler wrote: > I don't know of a portable way for an inetd-style daemon to "listen" for > user logins. > > On some systems (including RedHat/Fedora and debian), you may be able to > use PAM to do this. (pam modules don't just perform authentication, > they can take other actions. As an example, pam_lastlog "prints the > last login on successful login". I'm not sure what priviledge a pam > module has when it executes. > > A more standard way to do this would be to place lines in /etc/profile > /etc/csh.login and so forth for any other shells used on your system. > RedHat-style systems have an /etc/profile.d where you can drop a file > that will be executed at login, too. This will, of course, be executed > with the user's privilege level. Another problem with this approach is > that /etc/profile is executed for a "login shell", but a graphical login > is not a login shell. > > Jeff
If you'd like to hack and slash your way to a solution then you could run "watch who" in a daemon that then sed's the output to your desired format and then dumps it to a log/notification. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
