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How to check active SSH connections in Linux. Show SSH connection history. How to show active ssh sessions in Linux. List all the active SSH connections in Unix. Find out all the currently active ssh connections on any Linux node. Which all tools can be used to list all the active ssh connections in Linux. Show active SSH sessions. Check ssh connection history using log files in Linux.  In my earlier articles I had shared the trick to terminate or disconnect an idle SSH session or to kill a stuck SSH session using various methods in Linux. Some more more articles you may be interested on similar topics:
There are various commands and tools available in Linux which can be used to check active SSH connections or sessions on your Linux node. In this article I will share a list of tools which can be used to get the list of active SSH connections. If you are aware of any more commands to show active ssh sessions then please let me know via comment section. 1. Using ss commandss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state information than other tools. We will use grep function to only get the list of active SSH sessions on our local host [root@node3 ~]# ss | grep -i ssh tcp ESTAB 0 0 10.0.2.32:ssh 10.0.2.31:37802 tcp ESTAB 0 64 10.0.2.32:ssh 10.0.2.2:49966 tcp ESTAB 0 0 10.0.2.32:ssh 10.0.2.30:56088From the above example we know that there are three hosts which are currently connected to our node3. We have active SSH connections from 10.0.2.31, 10.0.2.30 and 10.0.2.2 2. Using last commandlast searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file designated by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out) since that file was created. Names of users and tty's can be given, in which case last will show only those entries matching the arguments. Using this command you can also get the information about the user using which the SSH connection was created between server and client. So below we know the connection from 10.0.2.31 is done using 'deepak' user, while for other two hosts, 'root' user was used for connecting to node3. [root@node3 ~]# last -a | grep -i still deepak pts/1 Fri May 31 16:58 still logged in 10.0.2.31 root pts/2 Fri May 31 16:50 still logged in 10.0.2.30 root pts/0 Fri May 31 09:17 still logged in 10.0.2.2Here I am grepping for a string "still" to get all the patterns with "still logged in". So now we know we have three active SSH connections from 10.0.2.31, 10.0.2.30 and 10.0.2.2 3. Using who commandwho is used to show who is logged on on your Linux host. This tool can also give this information [root@node3 ~]# who root pts/0 2019-05-31 09:17 (10.0.2.2) root pts/1 2019-05-31 16:47 (10.0.2.31) root pts/2 2019-05-31 16:50 (10.0.2.30)Using this command we also get similar information as from last command. Now you get the user details used for connecting to node3 from source host, also we have terminal information on which the session is still active. We generally hear terminal as tty but here we see terminal is referenced as pts, but now: 4. Using w commandw displays information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. This gives more information than who and last command and also serves our purpose to get the list of active SSH connections. Additionally it also gives us the information of the running process on those sessions. Using w command you will also get the idle time details, i.e. for how long the session is idle. If the SSH session is idle for long period then it is a security breach and it is recommended that such idle SSH session must be killed, you can configure your Linux host to automatically kill such idle SSH session. [root@node3 ~]# w 17:01:41 up 7:44, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root pts/0 10.0.2.2 09:17 9:41 0.31s 0.00s less -s deepak pts/1 10.0.2.31 16:58 3:06 0.03s 0.03s -bash root pts/2 10.0.2.30 16:50 5.00s 0.07s 0.02s w5. Using netstat commandSimilar to ss we have netstat command to show active ssh sessions. Actually we can also say that ss is the new version of netstat. Here we can see all the ESTABLISHED SSH sessions from remote hosts to our localhost node3. it is also possible that one or some of these active ssh connections are in hung state so you can configure your host to automatically disconnect or kill these hung or unresponsive ssh sessions in Linux. [root@node3 ~]# netstat -tnpa | grep 'ESTABLISHED.*sshd' tcp 0 0 10.0.2.32:22 10.0.2.31:37806 ESTABLISHED 10295/sshd: deepak tcp 0 0 10.0.2.32:22 10.0.2.2:49966 ESTABLISHED 4329/sshd: root@pts tcp 0 0 10.0.2.32:22 10.0.2.30:56088 ESTABLISHED 10125/sshd: root@pt6. Using ps commandNow to show active ssh sessions, ps command may not give you accurate results like other commands we discussed in this article but it can give you some more additional information i.e. PID of the SSHD process which are currently active and connected. # ps auxwww | grep sshd: | grep -v grep root 4329 0.0 0.1 154648 5512 ? Ss 09:17 0:00 sshd: root@pts/0 root 10125 0.0 0.1 154648 5532 ? Ss 16:50 0:00 sshd: root@pts/2 root 10295 0.0 0.1 154648 5480 ? Ss 16:58 0:00 sshd: deepak [priv] deepak 10301 0.0 0.0 156732 2964 ? S 16:58 0:00 sshd: deepak@pts/1Check ssh connection historyTo get the ssh connection history you can always check your SSHD logs for more information on connected or disconnected SSH session. Now the sshd log file may vary from distribution to distribution. On my RHEL 7.4 my sshd logs are stored inside /var/log/sshd Lastly I hope the steps from the article to check active SSH connections and ssh connection history in Linux was helpful. So, let me know your suggestions and feedback using the comment section. Didn't find what you were looking for? Perform a quick search across GoLinuxCloud How can I see all open connections in Linux?Check open ports in Linux. Open a Linux terminal application.. Use ss command to display all open TCP and UDP ports in Linux.. Another option is to use the netstat command to list all ports in Linux.. Apart from ss / netstat one can use the lsof command to list open files and ports on Linux based system.. How do I see all open connections?To display all active connections:. Open a command prompt.. Type netstat -a.. Press Enter.. Observe active TCP and UDP connections and listening ports, the local address and port number, the remote name or address and port number if a connection is established, and the connection status.. How do I view TCP connections in Linux?Check TCP Connection Status in Linux
To display listeners and connections on Linux we can use the netstat or ss command. While older Linux boxes only support netstat, newer Linux distributions use netstat and ss in parallel.
How do I find netstat in Linux?# netstat -pt : To display the PID and program names. Print the netstat information continuously. netstat will print information continuously every few seconds. # netstat -c : To print the netstat information continuously.
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