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Rootsh Terminal Logger Keeps Watch on Root Users

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 4, 2007

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Rootsh is a shell that logs everything a root user sees on his
terminal. This is useful if you have more than one system
administrator for a server and you want a record of exactly what
any given user does. Despite the fact that the latest rootsh
release was in March 2005, it still does its job great.

“Download the rootsh source code and unpack it in /usr/local
folder with a command like tar xvfz rootsh-1.5.2.tar.gz. At this
point you must decide some important things before you start
building the binaries…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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