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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:44:35 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Wesley Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some "security" questions.
Message-ID:  <20030211234435.GA31050@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <200302111532.28994.wes@softweyr.com>
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:32:28PM -0800, Wesley Peters wrote:
> On Monday 10 February 2003 23:59, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
> > > 1/ Command logging. We're thinking that a hacked version of the shell
> > > that logs commands may do what they want, but personally I
> > > think that if you are going to log things then you really want to
> > > PROPERLY do it, and log the EXEC commands along with the arguments.
> > > (sadmin et al. doesn't give arguments, and neither does ktrace)
> >
> > "Yes, we can do that" in the sense that it can be implemented if
> > there's a demand for it, but I don't think any existing code can do
> > it.
> 
> Did we somehow break acct(2), or is that somehow inadequate to the task?  It 
> should be ideal for what Julian's customer wants, I would think.  See also 
> acct(5), sa(8) and accton(8).

acct(2) does not log the arguments to commands, just the commandnames.
Since the arguments were specifically mentioned above acct(2) seems to
be inadequate.


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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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