LDAP (Active Directory) and user statuses

[Baruch Shpirer]

You can run some syslog for windows daemon on your dcs and redirect to some linux syslog daemon and parse security events for login 

Last login record in the ldap will not help you much

Baruch

shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:

>On May 31, 2012 6:14 PM, "ik" <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to write an application (on Linux) that checks with Active
>Directory if a user is logged in, and few other details about that user.
>> The only thing I do not understand, is how can I check if a user has
>logged in or not.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this issue and can shed some light,
>or point me to a good documentation on the subject ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ido
>>
>
>AFAIK, AD doesn't "know" a user is "logged in", because AD is not a login
>service, rather than an information source (e.g. *can* you login or not
>with the credentials provided). Also, you may be logged in to multiple
>stations on the domain... which one is the important to you? How would it
>know?
>
>You need workstations/server level info, not AD, IMHO.
>
>For example you could query NetBIOS via nbtstat -A ipaddr from a remote
>windows machine... there should be samba equivalent (don't remember by
>heart, sending this from my sgs2)
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>-- *Shimi*
>On May 31, 2012 6:14 PM, "ik" <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to write an application (on Linux) that checks with Active
>> Directory if a user is logged in, and few other details about that user.
>> The only thing I do not understand, is how can I check if a user has
>> logged in or not.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this issue and can shed some light,
>> or point me to a good documentation on the subject ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ido
>>
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