Rootsh is a wrapper for shells which logs all echoed keystrokes and terminal output to a file and/or to syslog. It's main purpose is the auditing of users who need a shell with root privileges. They start rootsh through the sudo mechanism.

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  • I test many programs be like logkeys, Snoopy Logger, strace, auditctl, ... But "rootsh" is best of logger program. Thanks for perfect software.
  • how to do to run rootssh automatically from the beginning session logging ? I mean, not manual starting ----- The solution was to add in /etc/profile or .bash_profile # gf if [ -f /usr/bin/rootsh ] ; then /usr/bin/rootsh --no-logfile fi it's important the option --no-logfile to avoid any message to the users and loss her tracking. too, not to add this entries to .bashrc because it opens internal pts terminals in bucle
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  • It saves my time. highly recommended
  • pretty cool thing for shell logging!!!!
  • Great tool for system admin...
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Solaris, Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD

Languages

English

Intended Audience

System Administrators

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C System Shells, C Logging Software

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2004-05-24