Somewhat OT: Is Full Command Logging Possible?

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 12/05/2012 05:42 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
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> On 6 Dec 2012, at 00:19, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
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>>       sudo chown root:wheel my_naughty_script
>>       sudo chmod  700 my_naughty script
>>       sudo ./my_naughty_script
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>>    The sudo log will note that I ran the script, but not what it did.
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> wow, way to complicate matters.

Hey, I didn't dream up this problem :)

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> sudo csh
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>> So Gentle Geniuses, is there prior art here that could be applied
>> to give me full coverage logging of every action taken by any person or
>> thing running with effective or actual root?
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>> P.S. I do not believe
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> Now would be a good time to start, then.


Well ... does auditd provide a record of every command issued within a script?
I was under the impression (and I may well be wrong) that it  noted only
the name of the script being executed.

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> The only things you need to ensure are:
> - auditd cannot be killed off (this is an interesting bit actually, anyone knows how to do that ?)
> - the audit trail files can only be appended to ; man chflags
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> An alternative would be lshell, however you'll have to whitelist commands people can execute.
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Remember that we want admins to be able to do *anything* but we just want
to log what they do, in fact do.

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