How To Clear or Remove Linux Logins History
How To Clear or Remove Linux Logins History
On Linux systems, there are three standard commands that show information about the most recently connected users: last, lastb and lastlog.
The output of these commands includes: login, time of last connection , IP address, port, etc.
To preserve anonymity, it is necessary to clear the history of recent connections.

Command Log Description
last /var/log/wtmp Lists successful login/logout history
lastb /var/log/btmp History of failed login attempts
lastlog var/log/lastlog List of the last connected users
Also a popular request is how to clear the lastlog file in linux history.
For removing all the information about the last logged in users, you need to clear the logs:
# echo > /var/log/wtmp
# echo > /var/log/btmp
# echo > /var/log/lastlog