{"id":3595,"date":"2016-03-17T08:43:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T08:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2021-02-06T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T06:04:32","slug":"clear-remove-last-login-information-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/clear-remove-last-login-information-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear or Remove Last Login information in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are Linux user and you want to know how to clear all login information in Linux, so in this article we will learn how to clear or remove the last login information on a Linux server from the command line.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the Linux systems there are three standard commands that give the information about last logged in users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lastlog command shows the most recent login of all users or of a given user.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">lastlog    \r\n\/var\/log\/lastlog\r\nlastb    \/var\/log\/btmp    Shows the bad login attempts\r\nlastlog    \/var\/log\/lastlog\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Clear Information About Last Logins:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To delete all the information about the last logged in users, you have to clear the files where this information is saved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For this simply overwrite<strong> \/var\/log\/lastlog<\/strong> file.First make a backup of <strong>\/var\/log\/lastlog:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">cp \/var\/log\/lastlog \/root<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now overwrite the file using below command:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \"># cat &gt; \/var\/log\/lastlog<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Press CTR+D to save the changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can use the following command to clear <strong>wtmp\/btmp:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\"># &gt;\/var\/log\/wtmp\r\n# &gt;\/var\/log\/btmp<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are Linux user and you want to know how to clear all login information in Linux, so in this article we will learn how to clear or remove the last login information on a Linux server from the command line. 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