SUMMARY: Logging of "su" to wtmp?

From: Randy garrett (rlg@ida.org)
Date: Wed Sep 23 1992 - 16:35:38 CDT


Thanks for the many helpful responses! Original question was how
to log su's?

The most helpful appears to be to turn on logging of su like this:
uncomment the line:

auth.notice ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)

in the file /etc/syslog.conf Make sure loghost is defined in /etc/hosts
If you don't want to do this, define the file name directly in
the line above.

These messages are also logged to /var/adm/messages (along with
a lot of other stuff) by default.

Other comments:
1) Be very careful of suid shell scripts -- use C or Perl.
I was personally planning to use Perl, though I don't see
the necessity now that I know how to do the logging to "authlog"

2) Consider using the C2 security package.
This seemed moderately complicated to set up given what we
need. I was also concerned about extra overhead.

3) Look into the package log_tcp with an rfc931 daemon like pauthd.
This records tcp connections.

Honor Roll:
Brian Bartholomew
Doug Neuhauser
bill@aloft.att.com
Richard Feuerriege
David Fetrow
poul@nilu.no
Peter Samuel
Ace Stewart
Daneel Pang
Graham Campbell
Soren Larsen
danny@ews7.dseg.ti
Mike Raffety
Dunstan_Vavasour
Ole Holm Nielsen
James A. Carhart
Robert M. Kuhn
Tim Evans
Ian Angles



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