Question about unix server

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My dad just phoned me up and asked me a weird question.

He said "You know the ping command?" "can you use it to see someone's IP address if they are connection through a hub? Cause at the moment I can only get the hub IP"

Basically he is connecting to a unix server, and he wants to find out who is connecting to it through a hub using a particular user. But he doesn't know how.

I don't know either, in fact I don't know why he asked me LOL he's the IT Analyst, not me :p

For clarification, he is not connecting through the hub, he is connecting directly.

Cheers,

G
 
Thanks for that information :)

I spoke to my dad again and he explained exactly what he is trying to do...

Basically, he is closing down some generic users on a server but he can see that someone is still using one of them, lots of people know the username and password so he can't be sure who is using it.

He needs to get in touch with that person and basically tell them they can't log in as that user anymore because he is closing it down and they will have to log in a different way in future.

He basically wants to get their workstation IP so he can check a list and find out which workstation it is so he can go talk to them about it.

When he checks the IP thats connecting to the server it just comes up as the same IP as always, which he assumes is the hub which this unknown user is connecting though.

He wants to find out the IP of the actual workstation, rather than the hub.

He said the information he's been given gets him a bit closer but not quite the result he needs.

Any more help would be much appreciated.:)

Cheers,

G
 
I saw your post with the pic before your edit and he is getting the same up when he presses w BUT his doesn't have the FROM column, so he can't see any IP on that screen.

When he does a who, it comes up with an IP but it's the hub IP.

He can't log into the hub even as root for some reason, it just wont give him access.

Think we are stuck now.

Cheers for you help though mate. :)

G
 
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