Title: Finding the user
Author: Immanuel Raj
Published: February 7, 2024
Last modified: July 23, 2025

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# Finding the user

[February 7, 2024](https://immanuelraj.dev/finding-the-user/)

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by

[Immanuel Raj](https://immanuelraj.dev/author/iamimmanuelraj/)

in [Linux](https://immanuelraj.dev/category/linux/)

Read Time

1–2 minutes

To know who is using your system/server right now you can use

    ```wp-block-code
    who
    ```

or

    ```wp-block-code
    w
    ```

it will show you who is in and what they are doing, when did they login etc

![](https://cdn.immanuelraj.dev/immanuelraj.dev/wordpress/images/Blog-Images/Finding-
The-User/BI-01.png)

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