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How can I find out which user logged in as root?

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We have a couple of servers which are managed by a large group of admins. They usually log in as service users (say ) and then switch to to make some small fix. This means we often can't map a change made to a person. Does anyone have a script for Unix/Linux which can tell me which user logged in a…

Error Output

> last -t 20101029174200 root
root     pts/26       :0.0             Wed Oct 20 15:36 - 15:03  (23:27)    

wtmp begins Fri Oct  1 16:34:36 2010

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you should be able to determine who is becoming root by parsing . for example, if i su to root on my own box, a line like this is entered in : now looking in , we see: which lets us correlate uid 1000 to a name. writing a perl script to do this shou…

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