RE: Unix privileged access logging
"Paul Melson" <[email protected]>
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> 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? I think your best bet is to log shell commands for the root user to syslog. Check out: http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/logging_commands_in_korn_shell PaulM