[Samba] tracking user activity - Active Directory

Thomas Simmons twsnnva at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 16:32:34 MST 2013


Have you tried something like tail -f log.samba > tmp.log.samba
and immediately logging into workstation to see exactly how it gets logged?
If your server is processing a lot of requests you may have a bunch of
lines to dig through, but I think it would be much easier than a complete
log file.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Bob Miller <bob at computerisms.ca> wrote:

> Thanks Gregory,
>
> I appreciate your answer, but this isn't quite what I am looking for.
>
> I am using samba4 compiled from source, and I am using daemontools to
> run it, so all the logs are being captured on stdout and dumped into a
> file, but I understand your point about where the logs are and how to
> search them.
>
> What I am looking for might be better described like so:
>
> grep "Mar 5" sambalogfile | grep <string showing a workstation was
> logged into>
>
> Note that I am not looking to see if a specific user logged in during a
> specific time, but for all users that performed a login in during a
> specific time.
>
> Also, because I have multiple services authenticating against this
> active directory, how do I tell the difference between a user logging
> into a workstation and a user logging into webmail (and being
> authenticated by Active Directory) from outside the organization?
>
> --
> Computerisms
> Bob Miller
> 867-334-7117 / 867-633-3760
> http://computerisms.ca
>
>
> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 14:38 -0600, Gregory Carter wrote:
> > Yes.
> >
> > Under /var/log/samba in a typical distro you will find the log files for
> > each IP address/workstation connected to the samba server.
> >
> > You could then use egrep to go through the files and look for various
> > logins.
> >
> > A typical example would be:
> >
> > egrep -in "gcarter|Mar 5" log*
> >
> > The above example looks through all of the log files beginning with
> > "log" and looks for the samba user name and date associated with the
> name.
> >
> > If you are not capturing that sort of detail, depending on how you have
> > your smbd process configured, you might be out of luck.
> >
> > You can use the same technique on any log file including Email if you
> > are running a email/smtp/pop server of course for searching information.
> >
> > -gc
> >
> > On 03/07/2013 02:17 PM, Bob Miller wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Some mischief happened and I have been asked if I can find out who was
> > > logged into their computers within a specific off-hours time frame.  My
> > > logs for that time frame happened to be running at debug level 3, so I
> > > have been looking through them and trying to figure out how to
> recognize
> > > a workstation login.  I find lines beginning with
> > > auth_check_password_send that seem like reasonably good candidates, but
> > > I have a number of other services such as email authenticating against
> > > the AD, and it seems that is just as likely to describe a mail log in
> as
> > > it is a workstation login.  Is there a way, or some documentation that
> > > will explain how, to parse the log files and determine which
> > > workstations were actively in use and by which account?  Or are there
> > > any tools that will parse the log files and provide me such
> information?
> > >
> >
>
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