Catching user switching and getting current active user from root on linux

[James Mills]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Tim Harig <usernet at ilthio.net> wrote:
> Well you could use inotify to trigger on any changes to /var/log/wtmp.
> When a change is detected, you could check of deltas in the output of "who
> -a" to figure out what has changed since the last time wtmp triggered.

This is a good idea and you could also
make use of the following library:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=utmp&submit=search

cheers
James

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