[Samba] Logging users connecting

lingpanda101 lingpanda101 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 18:26:52 UTC 2017


On 11/21/2017 1:15 PM, Luke Barone via samba wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Is there a way with Samba 4 AD to log when a user and computer are logged
> in? What we're looking for is to solve the scenario of students or faculty
> logging in on a workstation (with their username and password), doing
> something bad online, and the SysAdmin having to scour through the log
> files for a specific date and time, and figure out who was logged in at the
> time of the incident.
>
> Does such a logging feature exist? If so, how can we leverage it?

Many ways to accomplish this but have you started here yet?

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Audit_Logging

Depending on how many workstations you have, you can have separate log 
files for each machine or user.  See here.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Client_specific_logging


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James




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