Monitoring User Activity with psacct On Linux

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One of the big advantages of using psacct on your server is that it provides excellent logging for activities of applications and users.




Installation :-

for Redhat, Fedora, CentOs

yum install psacct
service psacct start

For Ubuntu Debian

apt-get install acct
service acct start



How to use psacct :

The connect time in hours is based on logins and logouts. 

root@Vishalvyas:~#  ac -p
        vishal                        9.12
        Ashish                      20.60
        Vipul                        15.80
        Anil                          17.33
        Akshay                     10.92
        pritesh                      4.10
        chirag                       8.75
        total                         168.95

Which user has executed what command on system :

root@Vishalvyas:~# lastcomm vishal

Process        Flag    Username  Terminal    Time

vim                          X vishal        pts/2         0.01 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
su               S           vishal            pts/2         0.00 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
bash                        vishal            pts/2        0.10 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
bash             F         vishal            pts/2        0.00 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
python                     vishal            pts/2       0.05 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
crontab                    vishal            pts/2       0.00 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
bash             F         vishal            pts/2       0.00 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
python                     vishal            pts/2       0.04 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
bash             F         vishal            pts/2       0.00 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
python                     vishal            pts/2       0.04 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
ssh                          vishal            pts/2       0.00 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
ifconfig                    vishal            pts/2       0.00 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16




Search the accounting logs by command name:


root@Vishalvyas:~#  lastcomm vim
vim                    root     pts/1      0.02 secs Tue Mar  5 10:28
vim                    root     pts/1      0.02 secs Tue Mar  5 10:18
vim                  X vishal   pts/2      0.01 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16



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Print All Account Activity :
The “sa” command is used to print the summary of commands that were executed by user.

 root@Vishalvyas:~# sa
    3178    4679.96re       0.80cp         0avio      4435k
     176    4586.25re        0.69cp         0avio     19371k   httpd*
      35       0.15re           0.04cp          0avio     23363k   /usr/share/webm*
      15       0.04re           0.02cp          0avio     17296k   landscape-sysin
      12       0.04re           0.02cp          0avio      6346k   DB_to_TNF.pl
      13       5.80re           0.01cp          0avio     26052k   svn
 





Flags:S – executed as super-user
F – executed after  but not following exec
D – terminated with core file
X – terminated with signal SIGTERM











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