How do I find out who is currently logged into the system?

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There are several ways to monitor who is currently logged into a system. One of which is to use the command last.

The last command will display all users logged into a system along with their current tty's. However, it will only display login information starting from the time /var/log/wtmp was created. With that, you need to make sure that /...

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