[ale] Script at Login Question

Sergio Chaves sergio at turbocorp.com
Thu Mar 25 06:31:04 EST 2004


Maybe this one can help.
We tried here for a  little while and it works.

http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_193.html

Sergio

Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Jonathan Glass wrote:
>
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>>I was thinking of logging their entire sessions.  We're doing some
>>performance benchmarking, and it would make collecting the results more
>>reliable than asking the researchers for them.  They tend to be a bit slow
>>in responding.  :)
>>
>>I'm also thinking about it from a security/audit standpoint.  My users are
>>all Windows/Samba users, so it would be nice to log any shell activity on
>>their accounts, since they should have very little reason to use a shell.
>>    
>>
>
>depending upon your needs, process accounting may be less cludgy for what 
>you're wanting. Just a few caveats to remember if you consider it:
>
>1. it logs when the command exits, not when it starts (and if the command 
>never exits, it never logs)
>2. it logs commands run, but not arguments passed to them
>3. someone running "cp badcommand ~/bin/ls && ~/bin/ls" will show up as 
>having executed
>       cp
>       ls
>(ie, it's not bullet-proof)
>
>later,
>chris
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