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

Author:
lausser [contact developer]

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8.41/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rootsh/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows :: Cygwin, POSIX :: AIX, POSIX :: HP-UX, POSIX :: IRIX, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		System :: Logging, System :: Monitoring, System :: Shells, System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.5.2	24-Mar-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] why not script(1)
by Stephan Schmieder - Jun 18th 2006 06:56:37

Hi there,

what are the benefits of using rootsh instead of script(1)?

greetings,
ssc

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ssc

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[»] Re: why not script(1)
by lausser - Jul 3rd 2006 15:27:50


> Hi there,

>

> what are the benefits of using rootsh

> instead of script(1)?

>

> greetings,

> ssc

because script
- doesn't send the in/output to a syslog server
- cannot be used as a login shell
- does not detect logfile tampering
- cannot be restricted to particular commands
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