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

[Tim Bornholtz]

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.  
>

sudo is your friend! Find out about it at http://www.sudo.ws/

Does this other person *really* need full root access or are there some 
(or even a lot) of commands that they must execute as root. With sudo 
you have a configuration file that lists each command they can execute 
(with wildcards if you desire). Everything is also logged! The log 
contains the real userid, the effective user, the command, tty, and 
timestamp.


-Tim