Re: Unix privileged access logging

"Eduardo Tongson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.loganalysis
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Why not fine tune sudo to whitelist the allowed commands?

On 5/16/07, James B Horwath <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> One of the items I am struggling with right now is logging Unix privileged
> commands (add/deletes/etc).  On some flavors of Unix  administrative actions
> are available via menus as well as the command line.  The command menus
> provide no method for syslog integration and the menus provide a convenient
> tool fort staff.  The native audit subsystem produces such a large volume of
> data, parsing said data is not practical.  Although sudo logs all
> administrative access, it seems many admins lack the discipline to use sudo
> on a routine basis other than to sudo su -.
> Are there any tool recommendations?
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim
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