$ w
23:04:27 up 29 days, 7:51, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.02
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
ramesh pts/0 dev-db-server 22:57 8.00s 0.05s 0.01s sshd: ramesh [priv]
jason pts/1 dev-db-server 23:01 2:53 0.01s 0.01s -bash
john pts/2 dev-db-server 23:04 0.00s 0.00s 0.00s w
$ w -h
ramesh pts/0 dev-db-server 22:57 17:43 2.52s 0.01s sshd: ramesh [priv]
jason pts/1 dev-db-server 23:01 20:28 0.01s 0.01s -bash
john pts/2 dev-db-server 23:04 0.00s 0.03s 0.00s w -h
$ w -u
23:22:06 up 29 days, 8:08, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
ramesh pts/0 dev-db-server 22:57 17:47 2.52s 2.49s top
jason pts/1 dev-db-server 23:01 20:32 0.01s 0.01s -bash
john pts/2 dev-db-server 23:04 0.00s 0.03s 0.00s w -u
$ w -s
23:22:10 up 29 days, 8:08, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM IDLE WHAT
ramesh pts/0 dev-db-server 17:51 sshd: ramesh [priv]
jason pts/1 dev-db-server 20:36 -bash
john pts/2 dev-db-server 1.00s w -s
2. Get the user name and process of logged in user using who and users command
who command is used to get the list of the usernames who are currently logged in. Output of the who command contains the following columns: user name, tty number, date and time, machine address.
$ who
ramesh pts/0 2009-03-28 22:57 (dev-db-server)
jason pts/1 2009-03-28 23:01 (dev-db-server)
john pts/2 2009-03-28 23:04 (dev-db-server)
To get a list of all usernames that are currently logged in, use the following:
$ who | cut -d’ ‘ -f1 | sort | uniq
john
jason
ramesh
Users Command
users command is used to print the user name who are all currently logged in the current host. It is one of the command don’t have any option other than help and version. If the user using, ‘n’ number of terminals, the user name will shown in ‘n’ number of time in the output.
$ users
john jason ramesh
3. Get the username you are currently logged in using whoami
whoami command is used to print the loggedin user name.
$ whoami
john
whoami command gives the same output as id -un as shown below:
$ id -un
john
who am i command will display the logged-in user name and current tty details. The output of this command contains the following columns: logged-in user name, tty name, current time with date and ip-address from where this users initiated the connection.
$ who am i
john pts/2 2009-03-28 23:04 (dev-db-server)
$ who mom likes
john pts/2 2009-03-28 23:04 (dev-db-server)
Warning: Don’t try “who mom hates” command.
Also, if you do su to some other user, this command will give the information about the logged in user name details.
4. Get the user login history at any time
last command will give login history for a specific username. If we don’t give any argument for this command, it will list login history for all users. By default this information will read from /var/log/wtmp file. The output of this command contains the following columns:
- User name
- Tty device number
- Login date and time
- Logout time
- Total working time
$ last jason
jason pts/0 dev-db-server Fri Mar 27 22:57 still logged in
jason pts/0 dev-db-server Fri Mar 27 22:09 - 22:54 (00:45)
jason pts/0 dev-db-server Wed Mar 25 19:58 - 22:26 (02:28)
jason pts/1 dev-db-server Mon Mar 16 20:10 - 21:44 (01:33)
jason pts/0 192.168.201.11 Fri Mar 13 08:35 - 16:46 (08:11)
jason pts/1 192.168.201.12 Thu Mar 12 09:03 - 09:19 (00:15)
jason pts/0 dev-db-server Wed Mar 11 20:11 - 20:50 (00:39
