How to tell who is logged in to Xserve running 10.4.11?

Is there a way to find out who is currently logged on to the server? It's an Xraid running 10.4.11.

Imac and Xserve, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Apr 29, 2009 10:33 AM

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Dec 28, 2010 6:36 AM in response to artlover

It's an Xraid running 10.4.11


There is no concept of 'login' on an Xraid. An Xraid is a disk array. However, since you mention 10.4.11 I assume you're looking for users logged into the server that the raid is connected to, correct?

In that case, how are users 'connecting'? There are various ways of connecting to a server (console, ssh, AFP, NFS, even HTTP) so you need to be more specific.

If you want to know which users have a shell running on the server, run the who command in your own shell.
If you want to know which users are logged in via AFP, use Server Admin.
Other protocols may (or may not) have their own methods of determining 'login'.

Dec 28, 2010 6:37 AM in response to artlover

Under Server Admin got to AFP and check the Connections tab. This will list all the logged in users, connection time, idle time etc.

Select the users and you can either choose "Send Message" which will pop-up a notice on the screen of those you've selected or choose "Disconnect" and set an X number of minutes and all the connected users will get a message that the server will shut down in X minutes. It will then disconnect all the users you selected.

Note that if you don't actually turn off AFP or restart the server people call re-connect to the server after the shutdown period is over so don't linger after you get everyone off.

=Tod

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