01-20-2009
Bullet proof of user history activity
Hi, is there a bullet proof of getting the history of all commands entered by a user on a specific server and idealy with the times ?
We have several servers. Therefore we can simply logon to one and do RLOGINS to go to others. We always first logon to servers with our personnal login and then switch to root. From there we can either work directly or switch to a few other users. We have the option of connecting to another server using RLOGIN (but with first being root as we don`t have to enter passwords on the rlogined server).
I have to find out if a specific employee did some work over the weekend as it is causing major escalation pain.
I am not sure if just doing a ROOT> HISTORY -999 is safe enough to check the activity of any users on one specific server no matter how they connected to it.
[added comments]
I just remembered that someone here once retrieved every single screen outputs that was done on one specific server including command prompt. Maybe that is what I need but don't recall how he did it.
We are using /bin/ksh shell by the way and AIX v4.2
Last edited by Browser_ice; 01-20-2009 at 08:28 AM..
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