[olug] Sharing root priv, tracking what other root does

[Steve Busby]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 09:07 pm, netsaint at cox.net wrote:
> I’m looking for a way to track what another root user does on a sensitive
> Linux server that I have had exclusive control of.  Recently, I was
> strong-armed into giving root access to another. Prior to sharing control I
> made it very clear, “you break it and I kill you”!  When this new root user
> breaks it, and he/she/it will, I should be able to recover nicely using
> AMANDA. Perhaps my emphatic statement was enough, to date, he/she/it has
> not attempted to login as root.  ;-) Any of you admins have experience in
> anything?  If so, how did you remedy it?
>
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Simply have syslog log everything to another "syslog" server which you 
control.

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