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    Clear last login IP in ssh and "last" command

    Hello,
    How can I clear the last login IP address in SSH, when you login it'll say Last login from: xx.xxx.xxx.xx and etc..

    Also when you use the "last" command.

    How can you clear these?

    I am creating an OS template for my VPS nodes and thought it'd be better to clear these before proceeding to make them.

    I appreciate any help.

    Thank you!

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    Hello,
    Never mind, I figured it out.

    For anyone who wants to know how to do this, execute this command in root SSH: rm -rf /var/log/wtmp

    Thank you,
    ~ Adam

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    thanks for this info

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    Quote Originally Posted by egmix View Post
    thanks for this info
    Glad to help.

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    /var/log/lastlog, too, if it exists.

    You may also want to get rid off /var/log/auth.log, and possibly off all the logs in general, if the intention is to remove any usage patterns. In the latter case, also look at /var/spool and /var/lib

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    ya../var/log/lastlog may some time have the logs in it. Anyway thanks for the info mnaumann

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    You might want to consider this command instead of removing the entire file:

    > /var/log/wtmp

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    Yeah I agree with team-vps. Blanking a file is always better than removing it completely:

    cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp

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    /var/log/messages can also contain logs of success ssh sessions so it is good to review them too.

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    *

    and also do

    # history -c [ clear your all commandshistory whatever you type otherwise person will get from history whatever you did]

    Thanks,
    Noman

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