Re: Audit trail for root?

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Author: Ted Gould
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Audit trail for root?
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:46 -0700, George Toft wrote:
> I am searching for a solution. Client company is looking for a means to
> track all commands issued by root. PowerBroker has already been
> excluded as it will cost over $1M to deploy. Product must be
> inexpensive and supported.
>
> I've researched this a bit already, and came up with sudoshell (no
> development since 2004) and modifying the bash source code and
> recompiling. Neither solution is acceptable.
>
> Any ideas?


Disable the root user and make all admins use sudo? I believe you can
disable the ability to do "sudo bash". It can be annoying to have all
your commands prefaced with "sudo", but any good admin can alias them.

        --Ted


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