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SecurityPortal: Ask Buffy – Logging root commands, xinetd, bcc e-mail tracking

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 4, 2001

“Are there any programs available for Solaris and Linux boxes to
log all sessions in a root shell? Something just like what “sudo”
does whenever its sudoers execute root commands, but for the root
account?”

“With the recent migration of Red Hat to xinetd vs. the older
inetd, how does the ‘traditional’ method of using tcp_wrappers (via
/etc/hosts.deny and hosts.allow) come into play? It seems that
xinetd provides a lot of the abilities that tcp_wrappers does/did.
Assuming that the rules in xinetd and the hosts.* files conflicted,
which would have precedence and why?”

“Recently, at my work, several employees were accidentaly
emailed a confidential email that was bcc’ed to them. Is it
possible to find out everyone that was bcc’ed on the email, without
looking in the senders sent items or looking on the Exchange
serever?”

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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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