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Steps to enable the SSH Notification Email!

Below are the required steps to enable the SSH Notification email at the server side:

1. Login to the shell prompt of your server

2. Edit the fine “/root/.bashrc” using any editor like vi

3.  Add the below contentts  to end of /root/.bashrc

echo ‘ALERT – Root shell Access on:” `date` `who` |mail -s “Alert: Root shell access from `who | cut -d”(” -f2 | cut -d”)” -f1`” you@yourdomain.com

4. Please make sure to restart the sshd service with the help of below command once its done:

service sshd restart

Note: DO replace “you@yourdomain.com” with the notification address.


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