Quarantine Edition [Entry 5] – Login Inception!? Yes! – Local Logins! — mac4n6.com

In the last article, I showed how you can find these processes using other log types. Let’s see what local logins look like in unified logs. Trying to create a query from these, I ran into an issue trying to filter for the ‘login’ process which makes a great learning example.

If I try to use ‘processImagePath’ I get lots of unnecessary entries from ‘loginwindow’ or any other process that might have ‘login’ in the name. This is because the process that we see in the default ‘log’ output is actually part of a path as the field ‘processImagePath’ suggests.

log show --predicate 'processImagePath contains "login"'