Question

Ubuntu 20.04 Set Up Alert Email for SSH Access

Posted on June 7, 2022
Security Ubuntu 20.04
Asked by mpasquali

I was wondering whether any answers in the following link would be most beneficial for setting up alerts to email me when a user logs in via SSH to my Ubuntu 20.04 server.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/179889/how-do-i-set-up-an-email-alert-when-a-ssh-login-is-successful

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Bobby Iliev

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• June 8, 2022

Accepted Answer

Hi there,

One of the most straightforward ways would be to put the following in /etc/profile:

if [ -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]; then 
    TEXT="$(date): ssh login to ${USER}@$(hostname -f)" 
    TEXT="$TEXT from $(echo $SSH_CLIENT|awk '{print $1}')" 
    echo $TEXT|mail -s "ssh login" you@your.domain 
fi