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Old 08-10-2009, 10:18 AM   #16
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Have you looked into psacct, sar, and sa for command history? This has proven many times to be useful to me when tracing back user involvement, and user security snafus.
If you can find, at a certain date and time, the user who executed a command, the exact command that was run including arguments plus output or any "evidence" of said command (say an unprivileged user running 'fdisk /dev/sda; d; 1; n; p; w; q') using only psacct, sar, and sa please show.
 
Old 08-10-2009, 10:42 AM   #17
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An fair question, no, sa and psacct do not give the arguments passed. sa will give the user that ran the command, but is used for more summary information of commands, lastcomm is a more useful command, which I forgot to mention, it gives date, user, termination status etc. However you are correct that either will give you the arguments passed.

sa --print-users
-> this would give you all commands run, cpu time for each, and the user that ran them.

lastcomm --user $USERNAME
-> this would give you all commands run by a certain user, and the time at which they were run, sans the arguments passed.

lastcomm $COMMAND
-> this would give you all commands run that match $COMMAND


For catching arguments, snoopy is a good tool, used in conjunction with psacct commands, and sudo audit files/logging you can catch quite a bit of information for process/user command auditing
 
Old 08-10-2009, 10:58 AM   #18
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An fair question, no, sa and psacct do not give the arguments passed. sa will give the user that ran the command, but is used for more summary information of commands, lastcomm is a more useful command, which I forgot to mention, it gives date, user, termination status etc. However you are correct that either will give you the arguments passed. (..) For catching arguments, snoopy is a good tool, used in conjunction with psacct commands, and sudo audit files/logging you can catch quite a bit of information for process/user command auditing
If you reread this thread TTB you'll see that I already offered 'rootsh'. If you don't know about it I invite you to read the docs and take it for a spin. Corellating its logging with that of PAM plus Sudo plus Auditd definately gives you a way more detailed timeline and convincing audit trail.
 
Old 08-10-2009, 11:25 AM   #19
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I did skim through the thread, and I saw both sudosh, and rootsh offered up. I was merely pointing out psacct since it is a default install on many systems and yet few people use it :-). I haven't used auditd, I'll have to look into it.

Thanks,

-Rob
 
Old 08-17-2009, 04:23 AM   #20
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you should try "rootsh", its a very useful tool, google it
 
Old 08-31-2009, 05:00 PM   #21
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Solved: log all commands

Failing to find a suitable utility I wrote the following C program to log all commands on Fedora Core. The command and it's arguments are copied into a command buffer and is written to syslog, prefixed by the user-id and the process-id.

Code:
int execve(const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
{
  int (*func)(const char *, char *const[], char *const[]);
  char path[PATH_MAX + PATH_MAX];
  FILE *fproc;
  int loginuid;
  char command[LINE_MAX + LINE_MAX];
  int icommand, iarg;
  size_t larg;

  openlog("gwaudit", LOG_PID, LOG_AUTHPRIV);

  sprintf(path, "/proc/%d/loginuid", getppid());
  loginuid = -1;
  if ((fproc = fopen(path, "r")) == NULL)
  {
    syslog(LOG_WARNING, "COULD NOT OPEN /proc FOR PROCESS %d", getppid());
  }
  else
  {
    if (fscanf(fproc, "%d", &loginuid) != 1)
    {
      syslog(LOG_WARNING, "COULD NOT READ loginuid FOR PROCESS %d", getppid());
      loginuid = -1;
    }
    if (fclose(fproc) == EOF)
      syslog(LOG_CRIT, "COULD NOT CLOSE FILE %s", path);
  }
  sprintf(command, "[%d:%d]", loginuid, getppid());
  icommand = strlen(command);
  for (iarg = 0; argv[iarg] != NULL; iarg++)
  {
    larg = strlen(argv[iarg]);
    if ((icommand + 1 + larg) >= LINE_MAX)
    {
      syslog(LOG_WARNING, "COMMAND BUFFER TOO SMALL FOR ARG %s", argv[iarg]);
      break;
    }
    command[icommand++] = ' ';
    strcpy(command + icommand, argv[iarg]);
    icommand += larg;
    //should not happen
    if (icommand >= LINE_MAX)
    {
      syslog(LOG_CRIT, "COMMAND BUFFER EXCEEDED INDEX=%d MAX=%d",
        icommand, LINE_MAX);
      break;
    }
  }
  
  syslog(LOG_INFO, "%s", command);

  *(void **) (&func) = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "execve");

  return((*func)(filename, argv, envp));
}
Suppose you save this code as gwaudit.c it should be compiled as follows:

gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -fPIC -O2 gwaudit.c -ogwaudit.so -ldl

This will create a shared library gwaudit.so. It should be copied to a suitable location (and if you have SELinux enabled to a location that SELinux allows). I am using /usr/lib/gwaudit/gwaudit.so

The library should be tested in a shell in which you execute:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/gwaudit/gwaudit.so
export LD_PRELOAD

and execute some commands. On Fedora Core the commands are written to /var/log/secure and are shown as:

Aug 31 23:49:12 hostname gwaudit[2704]: [500:2660] su -
Aug 31 23:49:12 hostname gwaudit[2705]: [500:2704] /sbin/unix_chkpwd root nullok
Aug 31 23:49:14 hostname gwaudit[2706]: [500:2704] /sbin/unix_chkpwd root nullok
Aug 31 23:49:14 hostname gwaudit[2707]: [500:2704] /sbin/unix_chkpwd root chkexpiry

If the shared library works the path should be added to /etc/ld.so.preload. Should you ever need to replace the library, make sure you uncomment the path in /etc/ld.so.preload before you do it, otherwise you need your rescue-CD.

Regards,
Gijsbert

Last edited by gwiesenekker; 09-01-2009 at 01:45 AM. Reason: Includes the user-id as well
 
Old 09-01-2009, 06:08 AM   #22
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Failing to find a suitable utility
In what way does 'rootsh' not work for you? Could you define "suitable"?
 
Old 09-01-2009, 06:12 AM   #23
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theres a command called script,which records what ever is typed in the shell to a .script file. do a man on script command.
 
Old 09-01-2009, 06:34 AM   #24
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theres a command called script,which records what ever is typed in the shell to a .script file. do a man on script command.
Aparently you haven't read anything in this thread or http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...44#post3604944.
 
Old 09-01-2009, 06:55 AM   #25
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^^^ did i say anything wrong
 
Old 09-01-2009, 08:34 AM   #26
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No, nothing wrong, it's just that it is an echo of what's been said before and given certain purposes just not as configurable, versatile or trustworthy as the other options given before.
 
  


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