Linux – VMware Linux Server — how can you tell if you are a vm or real hardware

Set the StrictHostKeyChecking option to no, either in the config file or via -o :

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no username@hostname.com

inotifywatch may help. Packaged in inotify-tools. Use as the user of files/dir for home dir being watched, not sudo, or you'll get errors on .gvfs if running a newer gnome.

inotify will only tell you which files get accessed/created/modified/deleted.

$ inotifywatch -r /home/username/.* /home/username/*
Establishing watches...

in another terminal

$ cat /home/username/.bashrc 

in inotifywatch terminal ctrl-c to end

Finished establishing watches, now collecting statistics.
total  access  modify  close_nowrite  open  filename
3      1       0       1              1     /home/username/.bashrc

For your specific request, all files accessed during login.

$ inotifywatch -r /home/username/.* /home/username/*
Establishing watches...

in another terminal

$ sudo su
# login username

in inotifywatch terminal ctrl-c to end

You may want to redirect the inotifywatch to a file if using a fat desktop like gnome or kde. Or increase your scrollback in the inotifywatch terminal. In gnome 3, thousands of homedir files are accessed during login. You'll probably want to either exclude directories or make a specific dir/file list to watch.