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Look in /var/log/messages as root. If you use sudo, the command you enter is logged. This is one of the advantages of using sudo.
Exactly which logfile is written to is determined by your /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf configuration file. It could filter sudo messages (sudo is the facility supplying the message) to go to a different log file.
Distribution: Red Hat, Scientific Linux, CentOS, and Ubuntu
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bash history
If you're using bash as a shell, you can also see a user's history of bash commands in:
$HOME/.bash_history
It won't give you the date and time information that you're seeing for sudo commands in /var/log/messages, but it will show the commands the user entered.
To see the history for the user you are logged in as, use this command:
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