How to view users that are connected to your server

Posted:  May 14th, 2016

 

To get information regarding the users who are currently connected to the server, you can use the "w" command.

 

Please follow these steps to get the information:

 

1) Login with SSH as root.

 

2) Type the command: w

 

You will be shown an output having many columns.

[root@server ~]# w

17:14:10 up 19:08, 0 users, load average: 0.22, 0.44, 0.34

USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT

[root@server ~]#

    > USER Field shows you the username of the connected user.

    > TTY field shows which terminal the user is using.

    > The IP address or hostname of the connected users will be listed under column FROM.

    > WHAT field shows which command the user is currently running.