Re: how to tell when a file was last read

From: Chris Field (cfield@affinitysolutions.com)
Date: 07/23/02


From: Chris Field <cfield@affinitysolutions.com>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Date: 23 Jul 2002 12:48:15 -0400


under linux you can use the stat command to get the last access time by
*ANY* user, however if the filesystem is mounted with the noatime flag
this time will not be updated.

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:42, Mike wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I understand there is a way to tell when a file was last _read_ by a user.
> (as opposed to when it was created)
> Does anybody know how to do this ?
> under linux ?
> under windows???
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike

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