X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Joe Smith" Subject: Re: "Last" or equiv for Windows login? Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 20:00:38 -0400 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com "Bruce Dobrin" wrote in message news:B7392353E4C4DE4ABC4EC255DB4CA04003471590@EXCHVS1.spimageworks.com... Hi, >Is there a flag for "last" or who or another program (cygwin or other) >that shows me the current and/or previous Windows login user? (Rather >than the "last" cygwin shell login). With a combination of cygwin tools >and wmic I have been able to log almost everything on any given remote >machine... But I can't figure out how to find out who is/was logged >into the windows console (desktop or whatever you want to call it). Any >ideas? > >Thanks >Bruce Dobrin I assume you have the ability to install programs, and remotely run programs on the given remote machines. You should be able to use a utility like Microsoft's logparser (http://www.logparser.com/) to do this. Basically log parser allows you use SQL to search the event Log, among many other things. logparser BLURB: >Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query >access to text-based data such >as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the >Windows® operating system > such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active > Directory®. You tell Log Parser what > information you need and how you want it processed. The results of your > query can be custom-formatted > in text based output, or they can be persisted to more specialty targets > like SQL, SYSLOG, or a chart. > >Most software is designed to accomplish a limited number of specific tasks. >Log Parser is different... >the number of ways it can be used is limited only by the needs and >imagination of the user. The world > is your database with Log Parser. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/