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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 1999 22:29:19 +1000 (EST)
From:      Nicholas Brawn <ncb@zip.com.au>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to keep track of root users? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.9907012223390.5912-100000@zipper.zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199906302058.NAA00679@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>

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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Cy Schubert wrote:

> Finally, process accounting can provide a limited logging 
> capability.

It appears that the process accounting in FreeBSD is a remnant of a bygone
era, where all cpu time was costly and had to be accounted for. From a
security perspective, process accounting would need to:
- log uid, gid, and euid of the user calling the process.
- log the process name, executable name, and path to the executable.
- log arguments to the process being executed.
- log date and amount of time the process took to complete.
- log the tty the user who called the process executed it from.

That being said, who wants to write it? ;)

Nick

> 
> Of course all of the above logging can be defeated by anyone with 
> root wishing to hide their tracks.
> 
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