Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· owainlewis

Check machine logins

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Sometimes you want to know when someone logs in to your machine when they shouldn't or when you started working on your machine.

The quickest way on osx is a simple

last | grep reboot

It should return a list of your login times

reboot    ~                         Wed Dec  4 09:48
reboot    ~                         Tue Dec  3 08:18
reboot    ~                         Mon Dec  2 08:00
reboot    ~                         Sun Dec  1 08:52
reboot    ~                         Sat Nov 30 10:16
reboot    ~                         Fri Nov 29 18:04
reboot    ~                         Thu Nov 28 18:41

Which will tell you when your machine was accessed and also acts as a handy indicator of when you start work each day.

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#machine login

Written by Owain Lewis

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