Re: Running a script on login

You can use something like this in /etc/hosts.allow

sshd : xxx.xxx.xxx/8 : spawn (echo -e "External ssh connection from %h
" | mail -s "SSH connection from Internet" xxx@gmail.com) : ALLOW





Chris Jensen wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to figure out how to run a script upon a successful login
> (of any user) via openssh.
> The ssh server is being setup for very limited remote access, so we'd
> like to monitor logins by having an email sent to the administrator
> whenever a user is successfully logged in.
> We only want the script to trigger for openssh logins (local logins
> we're not interested in), but I can't figure out how to set this up
> other than in the .bash_profile
> The other thing I considered was having a cron job watch the
> authentication logs, but I'd prefer something that runs only when
> necissary than having to constantly poll the logs.
>
> I've googled and come up with nothing, and read through all the config
> options and can't find anything. I also thought of using a PAM module
> to do this, but can't find anything appropriate.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
>