Re: Action if login happened

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk suse de>]

On Thu, Jan 15, Sascha Ochsenknecht wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to execute a command whenever somebody tries to login on a
> machine. The command should have following information (via env or
> something else):
> 
> a) username
> b) login successful / login failed
> c) if failed -> why? (password wrong or non-existing username)

I think what you are looking for is "audit". Use the audit framework
and a Linux-PAM version which is compiled with audit enabled.

  Thorsten

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