[SOLVED] How to Redirect Local User Historys ?

bala.linuxtech · 11-28-2012, 12:33 AM

Hi all

I am Using RHEL 5.4 Box., I would like to redirect my Local users histories ( /home/.bash_history) to /root/users_history file..

Is it possible to redirect ??

Guyz , Please suggest me your ideas!!

Regards
Bala

chrism01 · 11-28-2012, 01:31 AM

The problem is root's home dir is

Code:

dr-xr-x---.  17 root root  4096 Nov 28 17:27 root

so even adding a world writable file eg

Code:

-rw-r--rw-. 1 root root          0 Nov 28 17:27 t.t

you still get

Code:

 echo 'test' >/root/t.t
bash: /root/t.t: Permission denied

allowing write to root's home dir is a really bad idea.

Why would you want this anyway?

bala.linuxtech · 11-28-2012, 02:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

The problem is root's home dir is

Code:

dr-xr-x---.  17 root root  4096 Nov 28 17:27 root

so even adding a world writable file eg

Code:

-rw-r--rw-. 1 root root          0 Nov 28 17:27 t.t

you still get

Code:

 echo 'test' >/root/t.t
bash: /root/t.t: Permission denied

allowing write to root's home dir is a really bad idea.

Why would you want this anyway?

Chris

Good., I know very well that its very bad to redirect to /root/ ,
Here that Destination(/root/user_history) file is doesn't matter .. i would like to know is it possible to redirect, if its possible then how ?

Chris ., pls suggest me is it possible to redirect that histories to some where ?

Regards
Bala

chrism01 · 11-28-2012, 02:47 AM

You could probably symlink them to /tmp, but I'm not sure you wouldn't have issues if you try to put them all in the same file.
Again, why do this?

bala.linuxtech · 11-28-2012, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

You could probably symlink them to /tmp, but I'm not sure you wouldn't have issues if you try to put them all in the same file.
Again, why do this?

chris

Thanks ., Here I have a order to save all Local user history's, that is why i am going on this ... here i am going to redirect all local users history's to each file under /tmp ., is symlink method will helpful for this ? is there any other way to redirect ?

Once again thanks Chris !

Regards
Bala

chrism01 · 11-29-2012, 12:22 AM

Well it'd be easier to just create a cron job to back them up every day.
Note that the user has to be able to write to the history file, which also means that he can empty them.

This is not a secure way of tracking the user.
If you are after a secure method, you could have a look at rootsh http://sourceforge.net/projects/rootsh/

bala.linuxtech · 11-29-2012, 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

Well it'd be easier to just create a cron job to back them up every day.
Note that the user has to be able to write to the history file, which also means that he can empty them.
This is not a secure way of tracking the user.

Yes chris., that is happening here .. some users deleting their history's very often .. what should i do ? how to redirect the user history's in effective manner ?

Regards
bala.linuxtech

chrism01 · 11-29-2012, 12:42 AM

As I said, look at rootsh

bala.linuxtech · 11-29-2012, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

As I said, look at rootsh

Yes sure ..

Thanks Chris