Get the user login history at any time in Linux

 

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