Re: Windows Log

On 1/19/06, Nick Duda <nduda@vistaprint.com> wrote:
> To continue this topic, I'm faced with the same thing....
>
> The problem is that with all these event id's 672, 673, 540...etc there is 
> still no positive way to say , when a user logged on (via cntrl,alt delete) 
> and logged off, as in shutdown or log off.

The type of logon/logoff is listed under the "Logon Type" field in the
Event ID record.  See the below URL for details and explanations:

http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Logon-Types.html

Sounds like you want to audit the successful login/logoff events that
have a logon type of 2.

> My goal, is to use syslog or some other form of monitoring to keep records of 
> each employees logon/logoff of a PC physically on the network. I've been knee 
> deep into all these event id's and nothing is accurate.
>
> Please help.

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