Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:45:06 -0500 From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org> To: "Galella, Anthony" <anthony.galella@intel.com> Cc: "'Rob B'" <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: verbose logging of root? Message-ID: <20020404104506.E9116@trot.haven.dom> In-Reply-To: <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC3703E7@pysmsx102.py.intel.com>; from anthony.galella@intel.com on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:11:02AM -0500 References: <59F55CE047A6D51196360002A534A4AC3703E7@pysmsx102.py.intel.com>
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:11:02AM -0500, Galella, Anthony wrote: >Unfortunately sudo won't help in this situation. >There is a "backup" sysadmin here that has root access in case I am not >available. >He is learning, but I want to be able to track everything he does as root in >order to know exactly what is happening on the system. >Case in point: he chown'd and chmod'd a whole directory structure, causing >loss of access for users. I found the problem, and fixed it, but if I could >track what he did in the logs, I could be aware of these things before users >are (hopefully):) > > >Anthony J. Galella >anthony.galella@intel.com Haven't tried it, but why not echo $PWD, $$, and tail -n1 `history` to ~/root.log as part of a $PS1 variable? (or equivalent for csh, I always use bash) // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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