A probable useful feature

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Sun Jan 1 02:23:06 EST 2012


Vahab Shalchian wrote:
> Some monitoring softwares like Manage Engine Application Manager use a
> monitoring user which logins to a servers every 5 minutes via SSH so
> sometimes we need to be able to exclude this user from being recorded to
> wtmp,utmp files.

I think you should filter this away when reading those files instead.

As an alternative, perhaps you can configure the user to not be
allowed to allocate a pty, in which case you may not get as much
records of the login in *tmp.


//Peter


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