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Old 03-30-2013
Audit user activity
Need some help in coming up to log all the activity that is used with our common "unix account".

Ideally I am looking for to log the activity in a "separate" file for each session or login until the user logout, I would like to capture the date/time and terminal login and record all the commands until the user logout.

Please help.

Thanks
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Old 03-30-2013
Auditing has OS-specific components - what UNIX? What shell do you use?

wtmpx is a database ( a file really) that tracks when and from where a user account logs in, when the process logs out. Also check out the script command.
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Old 03-30-2013
I should mentioned this, I am in Solaris 10 & bash
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Old 03-30-2013
In most shells, and, of course, bash, you have the history file that collects the commands a user puts in. It may become difficult to separate the files if different remote users login to the same account; you may need to apply some tricks to create and keep separate history files.
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