[Tutor] Get file last user

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Tue Jul 12 22:30:19 CEST 2011


Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez wrote:
> Hello list!!!
> 
> I want to get the last user who accessed to a file, ...
> Is there a way to find out who used the file for the last time?

You don't say wgich OS you are using, which bis alklimportant.l Heavy 
duty industrial OS like OS.390,Pick and VAX VMS do record an audit 
trail, if the admin has switched that on. But mid range OS like Windows 
and Unix do not, so far as I know, record who made a change, just when 
the change was made. But that also probably depends on the filesystem in 
Linux, some of the more exotic ones may support audit trails.

If you really need to know who made changes you need to use a version 
control system like RCS, CVS, SVN, etc. Thats what they are designed to 
do, amongst other things...

HTH,

Alan G.
(From my Netbook because my PC broke! Boohoo... :-(



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