LDAP (Active Directory) and user statuses

[ik]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Baruch Shpirer <baruch at shpirer.com> wrote:

> 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...
>

Thank you both, I'm thinking in forcing the DC to add me a property of
"login" with boolean field or something like that, because as I understand,
they do know if a user is logged in.
For me the number of logins is not important, only that they are logged in
somewhere.


> -- *Shimi*
>
Ido



> 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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