SUMMARY :Tracking logout times

From: Darren Moulding <Darren.Moulding_at_sis.securicor.co.uk>
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 05:30:44 EDT
Thanks to the following for replying to my question

Theodore Tickell
Charles Homan
Mike Salehi
John Julian
Michael DeSimone
Edward Scown
Mike Demarco
Callum Hughes
Andrew Stueve
Brent Reich
John Leadeham

Whilst most suggested 'last' or 'sudo', these had already been investigated
and eliminated.
'last' could potentially be used in a script, although I was initially after
something a little more dynamic.
'sudo' a good and viable alternative, but we eliminated due to the
administration overhead as this soltion would be rolled out over several
customers.

Another suggestion to us C2 security, but this was eliminated due to the CPU
overhead and administration of the logs (V. Big logs).

Setting up individual root accounts with uid 0 ie rootxxx.

The following are the 2 I will investigate as they both look like they could
provide the result I require.
adding a trap to the root .profile
setting an alias in the .profile

Thanks to John Julian & Brent Reich for these suggestions.

Once again, thank you all for your advice on this matter.

Regards
Darren Moulding



  

ORIGINAL QUESTION

> Thanks for those who replied very quickly, although I think I did not make
> my initial dilemma clear enough. Various people will su to the root
> account, from this point I will need to audit who & why with logon dates &
> times. It's when this person exits from the root account, back to there
> initial logon I need to gather this time. Whilst last will give me all the
> times of the root account logons, it will not identify who used each
> session. 
> 
> Regards
> Darren
> 
> Original Mail
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to setup a form of auditing as people access our privelaged
> accounts (ie root, oracle). I will be creating a seperate database to
> track usage, but I am struggling to obtain 1 piece of Information to
> complete the log. This is the logout time of the session.
> 
> I want to be able to track/script the time any user enters 'exit' or 'ctr
> D' etc (leaves the root session). Does anyone have any tips to help me
> acheive this.
> 
> Regards
> Darren Moulding
> 
> 


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