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Re: commandlogging



from the secret journal of Izak Burger (gpf@linuxuser.co.za):
> I think you're thinking about BSD process accounting.  It provides a way
> to tell the kernel to write process information to a file.  I have never
> worked with it before, but now you have a bit more to go on :)

almost. since bsd process accounting only comes into effect when a process
exits, a trojan could exec("/bin/ls") and escape being logged. (IIRC)

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Jacob Kuntz
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