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admin · Site Admin Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 256 Location: India

You can get notification email when some one login to your server as root when you are using bash shell.

To enable root login notification, do the following

1. cd /root

2. edit .bashrc file with command
vi .bashrc

3. Add following content to .bashrc file

echo 'ALERT - ServerName Root Access on:' `date` `who` | mail -s "Alert: Root Access from `who | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1`" you@yourdomain.com

Change
ServerName to your server name.
you@yourdomain.com to your email address.

4. Save and Exit vi text editor with command :wq

Now log out of SSH and login, you will get SSH Root Login alert email with IP addrss and time of login.
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