Find Who Has Access to Your Gmail Account

from Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu

After years of testing, Gmail has finally added a very useful security feature: tracking open sessions. If you log in to Gmail from more than one computer and you forget to sign out, you'll be able to see the list of locations where your account can still be accessed.

经过几年的测试，Gmail终于加入了追踪帐号登陆记录的安全功能。如果你在多个电脑上登陆的Gmail没有注销，你就可以看到哪些地方还能使用你的Gmail帐号的列表。


Until now, the only solution when you forgot to log out from Gmail after using a public computer was to change your password. Otherwise, anyone could access your account without knowing the password. Now you can sign out remotely from all the locations where your Gmail account is still open.

你在一台公用计算机登陆了Gmail忘记注销，到现在为止解决问题的唯一的办法是修改密码。否则别人即使不知道你的密码也可以使用你的帐号。有了这项新添加的功能你就可以远程注销那些在别的地方登陆的帐号。

If you click on "Details" in Gmail's footer, you'll find a lot of interesting information about your sessions. "The top table, under Concurrent session information, indicates all open sessions, along with IP address and access type -- which refers to how email was retrieved, for example, through iGoogle, POP3 or a mobile phone. The bottom table, under Recent activity, contains my most recent history along with times of access. I can also view my current IP address at the very bottom of this window, where it says This computer is using IP address...".

Gmail页面下方细节点击进去你会发现关于你登陆记录的不少信息。最上面的表格显示的是你的帐号同时登陆的情况，IP地址，登陆方式都可以看的出来-登陆方式指的是邮件的读取方式，比如是igoogle，POP3或者是通过手机。下面的表格里最近操作中包含最近的登陆历史，上面有详细的时间，最下面则是现在正在使用的电脑的IP地址。



This could be useful if you want to find whether someone else has access to your account: you'll be able to find the IP address and the date of the most recent activity in your account.

想知道是不是有人在使用你的帐号，这项功能就比较有用：你还可以知道最近你的帐号什么时候在那个IP地址上登陆过。

Gmail's blog mentions that this feature is currently being rolled out in the new version of Gmail, so you may not see it right now. Google AdSense, PayPal and orkut are three other services that show the time of your last login so you can protect against abuse, but Gmail's new feature is much more advanced.

Gmail的官方博客声称这一功能会在新版本的Gmail推出，所以现在你可能在自己的Gmail中还看不到。Google AdSense，PayPal和orkut是其它可以显示你上次登陆时间的三项服务，旨在保护帐号被别人盗用。相比之下Gmail的追踪功能更加的强大。

Among the things you can do to protect your Gmail account, it's a good idea to sign out after reading your email, not to select "remember me" when you log in from a public computer and to choose a good password that should remain secret.

要保护自己的帐号不被人盗用，每次看完邮件注销是个不错的好习惯。使用公用电脑不要让浏览器记住密码，当然一个好的密码也非常的有必要。