Re: how to use auditd to record all user command history

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:05:48PM -0700, zhu xiuming wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > Currently, our Linux kernel versions are mostly Redhat 2.6.18-xxx.el5. I > wonder whether it supports this feature. The log_passwd feature has not been backported to RHEL5 because the pam_tty_audit feature wasn't backported to RHEL5, so I would have to say it is not supported in your system. An upgrade is necessary. > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:30:24AM -0700, zhu xiuming wrote: > > > This is correct. The problem is, this records every keystrokes and even > > > the password of the users. While I only care about the user command > > > history, I surely do not want to know their passwords. > > > > There is now support in the upstream kernel (3.10-rc1) and in pam > > (1.1.8+) to not record passwords by default. If you want the old > > behaviour, add the optional argument to pam_tty_audit: "log_passwd" > > > > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Trevor Vaughan < tvaughan(a)onyxpoint.com > > >wrote: > > > > Does pam_tty_audit with enable=* not do what you want? > > > > > > > > Trevor > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 5:26 PM, zhu xiuming <xiumingzhu(a)gmail.com&gt; > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> HI > > > >> I know this seems an old topic. But unfortunately, I can't find a > > > >> solution for this. I have googled long time. I tried following > > options: > > > >> > > > >> 1. audit execv syscall, > > > >> this does record every command typed any tty. However, it > > generates > > > >> lots of noise. Sometimes, the execv syscall is so frequently called > > that > > > >> the system can't afford to log every call of it and it crashes !!! > > > >> > > > >> 2. use *pam_tty_audit.so > > > >> * > > > >> this makes it possible to record one or two users, not all users. * > > > >> * > > > >> So, may I ask, is this problem solvable by auditd or do I need other > > > >> tools ?* > > > >> > > > >> * > > > >> *Thanks a lot > > > > > > > > Trevor Vaughan > > > > - RGB - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs(a)redhat.com&gt; Senior Software Engineer Kernel Security AMER ENG Base Operating Systems Remote, Ottawa, Canada Voice: +1.647.777.2635 Internal: (81) 32635 Alt: +1.613.693.0684x3545