George,
Look into LAuS (Linux Audit Subsystem). It has the ability to watch
commands as well as system calls. I don't remember if it records
command-line options or not.
LAuS is in 2.6 kernels. To get started look at the man pages for
auditd and auditctl.
Brant Evans
On 8/1/07, George Toft <
george@georgetoft.com> wrote:
> sooo close!
>
> psacct does everything we need except log the parameterd to the command.
> This is important as it simply shows I ran a command - not what I
> really did:
>
> [root@ServerABB account]# lastcomm --user root
> lastcomm root pts/0 0.01 secs Wed Aug 1 21:19
> man root pts/0 0.04 secs Wed Aug 1 21:19
> sh root pts/0 0.00 secs Wed Aug 1 21:19
> sh root pts/0 0.00 secs Wed Aug 1 21:19
> less root pts/0 0.00 secs Wed Aug 1 21:19
>
>
> man lastcomm does not indicated I can do that, either.
>
> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> 623-203-1760
>
>
>
>
> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, 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?
> >
> >
> > How much detail do you need? BSD systems have accounting of all commands
> > that can be easily enabled -- it has been useful for me.
> >
> > Linux has similar capability. Some old links:
> >
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/admin/accounts/acct-1.3.73.lsm
> > (source in same directory)
> > http://directory.fsf.org/acct.html
> > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Process-Accounting.html
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6144
> >
> > Some of my customers use atop. (I installed it recently on CentOS.)
> > I found some links:
> >
> > http://www.atconsultancy.nl/atop/
> > http://aplawrence.com/Words2005/2005_07_09.html
> >
> > These both keep logs.
> >
> > If they don't record what you want, let us know. (Also FreeBSD recently
> > gained "security event auditing" which has some portable code for Linux
> > called OpenBSM ("M" on the end there).
> >
> > Jeremy C. Reed
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