# of users logged in

[lesmak]

Hello,

Would it be possible, or maybe it is already possible to see number of users currently logged in to DA?
Also, if user is logged in - to see on what page he/she is on exactly?

Thx

 

[thoroughfare]

You could write a plugin to do that which would parse the DA logs possibly.

HTH,
Matt

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

The easiest would be to check the /home/tmp/da_sess* files to see who's logged in. If you wrote a plugin, you'd need to set the script to be owned by "diradmin" and "chmod +s" so it can read the files. Make sure it's *very* secure if you do that Add checks to see who's running it and even chmod 770 (+s) with the group set as the admin name who will run it, so you don't get anyone running it who shouldn't be....

John

 

[thoroughfare]

So it'd be owned by user diradmin and group admin_username?



Thanks,
Matt

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

We'll you could probably do it a few ways, direct UID checking might work, but I was thinking

chmod 1770 script.pl
chown diradmin:admin_name script.pl

That allows
1) admin_name to run it through DA
2) to escalate the script privilges to "diradmin" so that /home/tmp/da_sess* can be read.

I don't think we'll be implementing that anytime soon, so you can really do it however you can figure out Using the API could work too if you grabbed the session ID's from the directory.

Up to you

John

 

[thoroughfare]

Thanks John. I'm going to be working on a lot of plugin stuff very soon so I need this kind of advice to make sure the plugins are secure.

I'll be emailing you and my server admin company quite a lot I think

Matt