On 10/11/98 17:50:55 you wrote:
Is there any way to log CIFS logins? We are using unix authentication, NIS enabled, and default logging (no /etc/syslog.conf file). We're running 5.0.2.
Not that I know of (cifs sessions will give you the current ones), but perhaps someone more in the know could say for sure...
Is there any way to coax our filer to log the time and loginid of each CIFS login?
CIFS users don't "login" per se, although there are connections that are made and closed associated with a connection. There is the general network authentication, but you say you're using UNIX authentication, not NT.
This information is essential for system administration in a university environment.
Why? You don't have this information available for NFS access. Sure, you record the UNIX login, but you do that in a different place... at the server. A person with a PC and and NFS client could just as easily make a NFS "login", that is make an NFS request as a given userid, without your logging it, just like they can CIFS. Of course, you can restrict all of your NFS access by hsotname, but that's beside the point.
The point, I think, is that you're looking in the wrong place. If you want to record logins that could then potentially make CIFS requests, you should be doing it at the PC itself, or use NT authentication.
Still, given particular situations, logging CIFS sessions would be useful. So would logging PC-NFS sessions, which I know some servers do but I don't think the filer does.
Bruce