How to show notification on ssh login

Here is how to do it

Append the following to /etc/pam.d/sshd

session optional pam_exec.so seteuid /etc/ssh/login-notify.sh

Create a new file /etc/ssh/login-notify.sh and add execution permission to the file

$ sudo touch /etc/ssh/login-notify.sh
$ sudo chmod +x /etc/ssh/login-notify.sh

Add the following to /etc/ssh/login-notify.sh
```
#!/bin/sh

if [ "$PAM_TYPE" != "close_session" ]; then
  host="`hostname`"
  message="SSH Login: $PAM_USER from $PAM_RHOST on $host"
  DISPLAY=:0 /usr/games/xcowsay "$message"&
fi
```
if your are and arch user replace this line

DISPLAY=:0 /usr/games/xcowsay “$message”&

with the following

DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/xcowsay “$message”&

if you want to used notify-send instead you can replace it with

DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/notify-send “$message”& What I acutally use is https://github.com/haude/xcowsay-utils

If want a mail to be sent as a notification (probably because you want notification from the server), then replace the DISPLAY statement with

{
  echo "User: $PAM_USER"
  echo "Remote Host: $PAM_RHOST"
  echo "Service: $PAM_SERVICE"
  echo "TTY: $PAM_TTY"
  echo "Date: `date`"
  echo "Server: `uname -a`"
} | mail -s "$PAM_SERVICE login on `hostname -s` for account $PAM_USER" root

or something you like

How to show notification on ssh login

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