Summary

Currently, there is no way to tell when was the latest date/time a user logged in Bamboo, regardless the authentication type (e.g.: Internal Directory, External Directory)

Steps to Reproduce

1. When authenticating in Bamboo (Internal Directory), there is no database table that holds information on user's latest authentication against the application.
2. When authenticating in Bamboo (External Directory, e.g.: JIRA) you can run the following SQL statement against JIRA's database:

   select Attr.attribute_value as LAST_AUTHENTICATED
     from cwd_user as Person
     join cwd_user_attributes as Attr
          on Person.id = Attr.user_id
    where Person.user_name = 'USERNAME'
      and Attr.attribute_name = 'lastAuthenticated';
   

   LAST_AUTHENTICATED
   1467639110107

However, when authenticating with the same USERNAME in JIRA and re-running the SQL statement above, the same gets updated:

Due to the information above, you cannot tell whether the authentication was from Bamboo or JIRA.

Expected Results

Be able to determine when a particular last authenticate against the application.

Actual Results

Information cannot be retrieved.

Notes

In Bamboo, there is a table "AUTH_ATTEMPT_INFO" that stores failure login attempts.

This table could store information related to not only failure login attempts but actual login as well.
LAST_AUTH_TIMESTAMP should store date/time.

Workaround

Last login date can be pulled from log files, such as <bamboo-home>/logs/atlassian-bamboo.log using a shell command. The command below, tested on Unix machines, allows for multiple atlassian-bamboo.log  files in multiple directories, for example in the case of upgrades:

find / -name atlassian-bamboo.log -exec grep "BambooAuthenticator" {} \; |awk -F ' ' 'BEGIN {date = $1} {if ($1 > date && $1 > a[$11]) a[$11] = $1} END {for (i in a) print i" : " a[i]}'

Sample output:

nonadmin, : 2017-02-15
bamboo, : 2017-02-24

Notes:

1. The command provided will only work on terminals which support GNU tools
2. This can be run from any directory accessible by the Bamboo user
3. This command may take some time to run, dependent on the size of your {{atlassian-bamboo.log }}file(s)
4. This suggestion is provided as-is and support will not be available from Atlassian Support