Need a Linux tool to capture my own keystrokes ...

[Michael Butash]

Openssh and sftp rely on pam, which you can figure out to offer multiple 
authentication sources, but remember they can be different, as can 
authorizations (ftp, and/or ssh/sftp), so ssh may not be necessarily 
tied to ftp and vise versa.  If not a dedicated system in some fashion, 
you might not have root access.

If it is dedicated, what ftp daemon?  Depending on it, it may not use 
your /etc/shadow file passwd, or pam at all.  They are otherwise usually 
tied to ldap or sql as most hosting solutions do for "shared hosting" 
systems if not dedicated.  If they do they allow ssh logins for your 
host, it'd have to be dedicated or virtual-dedicated (or containers like 
docker).  They're not likely to give up ssh on a shared host, lest you 
have fun in a sandbox with everyone else having root to your system too.

Ftp is the option usually as a common denominator for hosting co's, 
because it detaches from local auth to something more centralized like 
ldap or sql vs. a bunch of passwd files floating around to manage (even 
if via puppet or whatever) across thousands of local files across 
systems, though just as bad one still has to manage a local account none 
the less.

-mb


On 05/07/2015 07:24 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> Is there some kind of Linux tool that I can use to capture
> my own keystrokes.
>
> I am having a problem with ssh login telling me "Permission denied"
> I use the exact same password to ftp login and it works every time.
>
> So I'd like to be able to capture the keystrokes so I can prove that I am
> not making a typo.
>
>
>
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