User last login information

[Marco Rocha]

Hello,

I need to get the last login information of an user to show it in my VC++ application.
Do you know where can I get that information?
Thanks.

[Zak]

I'm sure there is an easier way of doing this but, when I had to do that for work I used a VB script and sent the output to a file (i.e. “UserLoginTimes.log”). Then inside C++ I parsed the file to find the user I wanted the info from.

Here is the script I used…

' List last logon times
' 2005 Zak AInsworth
On Error Resume Next
sEnterDCs = "NSOLAB"
sObjects = Split(sEnterDCs, ",")
Set oDomain = GetObject("WinNT://" & sObjects(0))
oDomain.Filter = Array("User")
WScript.Echo "Showing last login times of accounts from: " & oDomain.Name & vbNewLine
 For Each oDomainItem In oDomain
  sUsrLogin = oDomainItem.LastLogin
  If UBound(sObjects) >= 1 Then
    For ii = 1 To UBound(sObjects)
      Set oUsr = GetObject("WinNT://" & sObjects(ii) & "/" & oDomainItem.Name & ",user")
      If oUsr.LastLogin > sUsrLogin Then sUsrLogin = oUsr.LastLogin
    Next
  End If
  WScript.Echo "Username: " & Left(oDomainItem.Name & Space(22),22) & "Last login: " & FormatDateTime(sUsrLogin)
Next

(on the line ‘sEnterDCs = "NSOLAB"’, change “NSOLAB” to your domain name.)

Name the script something like “GetUserLoginTimes.vbs”.

You can add this line of code to your C++ source…

System(“cscript GetUserLoginTimes.vbs > UserLoginTimes.log”);

This will run the script and send the output to “UserLoginTimes.log”.

Now it’s up to you to do the parsing. The script lists each user on a new line which makes is pretty easy.

Good Luck…

-Zak