so you mean no way for having each command hit by each users except getting bach_history file !!! because i want to get my system more secure and seeing each user what he does or what he is doing in shell Thx! On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Abdelkader Yousfi wrote: > > All, > > > > How can we know on RHEL what each users is doing on the system (commands, > > file accessing...etc)? > > Thanks! > > Are you talking about *every* *single* *command* (assuming we're not > talking X > here, but shell), or just when they issue commands with root privilege? > > If the latter, they should be using sudo most of the time, and then > everything > will be logged in /var/log/secure. > > If you mean the former, that's inane. They started doing that at a major > corporation I worked at in '03, allegedly as part of their SOX > (Sarbanes-Oxley) > compliance, and it's a bad joke; it's more 'if anyone ever asks, we'll bury > them under so much info that they'll never find what they're looking for". > > Really - what do you actually *need* to know? What are you trying to > achieve? > Logging everything that everyone does, say, by copying their .bash_history > file > every few minutes, or adding a shell wrapper that logs it, the way the > company > I worked for did, for more than a handful of people will *bury* you. > > While we're at it, though I hate it, are you using selinux? > > mark > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Best Regards, Abdelkader -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
