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Manual Reference Pages  - PAM_LASTLOG (8)

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pam_lastlog - PAM module to display date of last login

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pam_lastlog.so [debug] [silent] [never] [nodate] [nohost] [noterm] [nowtmp]

pam_lastlog is a PAM module to display a line of information about the last login of the user. In addition, the module maintains the /var/log/lastlog file.

Some applications may perform this function themselves. In such cases, this module is not necessary.

debug
	Print debug information.
silent
	Don’t inform the user about any previous login, just upate the /var/log/lastlog file.
never
	If the /var/log/lastlog file does not contain any old entries for the user, indicate that the user has never previously logged in with a welcome message.
nodate
	Don’t display the date of the last login.
noterm
	Don’t display the terminal name on which the last login was attempted.
nohost
	Don’t indicate from which host the last login was attempted.
nowtmp
	Don’t update the wtmp entry.

Only the session service is supported.

PAM_SUCCESS
	Everything was successfull.
PAM_SERVICE_ERR
	Internal service module error.
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
	User not known.

Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to display the last login time of an user:

    session  required  pam_lastlog.so nowtmp
     

/var/log/lastlog
	Lastlog logging file

pam.conf(5), pam.d(8), pam(8)

pam_lastlog was written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>.

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