[ale] Auditing root shells

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Mon Sep 19 11:16:16 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 10:18 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Serial console is an excellent idea. I now recall from "The Cuckoos
> Egg"
> the use of a serial console split on the wire to a line printer that
> was
> used to capture the command during a breaking.

I think the problem with capturing output via a wire is that you can
only monitor Tx on either the device or user.  A console management
device sits between the user and the server capturing all output.

Plus its more economical than having a printer for each server.





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