Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm looking at allowing remote telnet into my server.

like any security-minded administrator, I want to log what my users type on the telnet session.

I'm using the script command to generate transcripts of the users session.

I have /etc/profile set to automatically start the script command to log user activity, and in /etc/bash.bash_logout I have a command that emails me the transcript of the users' session.

All of the above works well except for one thing:

the users can type "exit" to escape from my script logging and any commands they type won't get logged.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

If you really were security-minded, you would not allow telnet; it would be ssh only.

That has nothing to do with security; that's snooping.

I already allow ftp, so telnet is no problem here - my users don't need ssh access.

And your right it is snooping - but the users of my server are not that trustworthy anyway - I run a web hosting company and am looking at remote shell solutions.

when I say i'm security minded, i'm talking about server security, not user security (if a user tries to hack my server i want to know about it and how they did it and who it was)

thanks for the reply, no thanks for being rude about it.