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mattia
I was doing some maintenance on my server today and notice that when I run top, it shows 2 users on the system, but when I run the who or w commands it only shows 1 user (me). Any suggestions of how I can find out who that other user is?

Kind of a weird issue... hopefully someone will have suggestions. I know it could be a hacker... but I would like to know if there is a way to see more info about the user that does not show with who or w. icon_smile.gif

Thanks in advance.
James Jhurani
QUOTE (mattia @ Jul 13 2007, 12:09 AM) *
I was doing some maintenance on my server today and notice that when I run top, it shows 2 users on the system, but when I run the who or w commands it only shows 1 user (me). Any suggestions of how I can find out who that other user is?

Kind of a weird issue... hopefully someone will have suggestions. I know it could be a hacker... but I would like to know if there is a way to see more info about the user that does not show with who or w. icon_smile.gif

Thanks in advance.



netstat -an | grep ":22" (assuming your sshd port is 22)
and look who is connected.

Also "last -a".

Can you paste the info from top, and from who so we can take a look at it.
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