Monitoring Login Shell Alert Notification Application

Remote monitoring and maintaining logs of each user activities is a cumbersome task for an administrator. Most of organization needs tools for monitoring user login activities and today PC enthusiasts and amateur efficiency experts explain how to use these tools for their own purposes. Client and Servers running confidential services must be monitored for unauthorized access and modification of data. An availability monitoring tool is practically a necessity for organizations to perform routine tasks. The proposed application helps to monitor and notify user of authorized and unauthorized login session and can prevent from any classes of intruders. A masquerade can take control of a system or misfeasor can misuse the privileges or clandestine user can do both. The application is written inside a Linux configuration file such that whenever an administration tries to open any non GUI terminal out of six terminals, an image is captured with date and time and captured details is sent to administrator’s mail id as an alert message. The application is embedded in a Linux configuration file. When authorized user logins to bash shell, the application also captures video and saved in local home directory and captured image is sent to user’s mail with alert message in a subject field with date and time of access details. The application is written using a shell script and tested on Ubuntu which is an open source operating system.