Reading log file like utmp

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Hello,

I am trying to read log files, for a sherlock on HackTheBox. Same problem as this user Util-linux doesn't have utmpdump

How am I supposed to read these log files ? when utmpdump, is not available. Using things like “who” or “strings” will not parse everything the right way, obviously. Why has this been removed?

I hope someone can help me.

Kind regards.

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Alright, for any future reader I fixed this myself.

this is how you do it:

Download the binary here GitHub - neko-neko/utmpdump: utmp file dumper, written in golang. Output to json or tsv or csv.
on linux just download the following release from that git page: utmpdump_linux_amd64

then rename it to utmpdump, place it into /usr/bin. Restart your terminal and you can run it from the terminal

utmpdump -f utmp

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Try this : >>

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You can also try this : >>
sudo apt install utmpdump

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That didn’t work, I had to download the binary separate and put it in my /usr/bin manually.

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try
sudo apt install util-linux
if its not installed try find it with comant which utmpdump should return /usr/bin/utmpdump
if not then install it from git hub
git clone https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux.git cd util-linux

hope you wil find this helpful