xenial (8) aulast.8.gz

Provided by: auditd_2.4.5-1ubuntu2.1_amd64 bug

NAME

       aulast - a program similar to last

SYNOPSIS

       aulast [ options ] [ user ] [ tty ]

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. Names of ttys can  be
       abbreviated, thus aulast 0 is the same as last tty0.

       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 created.

       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
       allocated, so you may not see quite as many records indicating users and their tty's.

OPTIONS

       --bad  Report on the bad logins.

       --extract
              Write raw audit records used to create the displayed report into a file aulast.log in the  current
              working directory.

       -ffile 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 audit records associated with that session.

       --stdin
              Take audit records from stdin.

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