Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:00:47 +0100 From: Vince Hoffman-Kazlauskas <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Subject: Re: Root access loggin Message-ID: <46A6768F.3040408@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <A4BA3AEA2481104F45B9F544@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <050b01c7ce16$960a0570$6400a8c0@msdi.local> <46A63689.80906@voidmain.net> <444pjt3ard.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <46A652D7.4030001@voidmain.net> <5e49673f0707241241w4c751dbbi4a28590e5b164fc2@mail.gmail.com> <054701c7ce2d$6f42d6d0$6400a8c0@msdi.local> <A4BA3AEA2481104F45B9F544@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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\ \ Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Tuesday, July 24, 2007 16:01:33 -0400 Ian Lord > <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote: > >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Fitzgerald [mailto:jjfitzgerald@gmail.com] >> Sent: 24 juillet 2007 15:42 >> To: Tom Grove >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ian Lord >> Subject: Re: Root access loggin >> >> I may be misunderstanding this, but wouldn't allowing only certain >> commands with sudo assume that the user actually knows what commands >> are needed by the user? In this situation it seems like the whole >> reason to grant access to the server was because the user _doesn't_ >> know what needs to be done. >> ~~ >> >> Exactly, I don't know what needs to be done, and they don't neither. >> That's why they need to browse around trying to figure out why their >> installer doesn't work. >> >> Sudo wouldn't be any help here cause I would need to pre approve >> commands >> and I don't know which one will be needed. >> > You seem to have a mistaken understanding of sudo. You can grant them > access to everything that root has simply by adding their account to > the wheel group and using visudo to grant wheel access to everything > that root has access to. You can do this with or without a > requirement to type your password when you use sudo. > > This will allow them to do everything they want while logging every > command they type. And that seems to be exactly what you want. So, > rather than giving them the root password, create an account for them, > add it to the wheel group and use visudo to edit > /usr/local/etc/sudoers to grant wheel access to everything. (DO NOT > edit the file with vi!) > > To add the wheel group to a user: > pw usermod username -G wheel > > Granting access to wheel should be self-explanatory: > > # Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands > %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL > # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > That way everything they do is logged, and you don't have to > compromise your root password. > The problem here is that the first command I type in this situation if i need to run multiple commands as root it sudo su - after that nothing is logged. I agree with Lowell that watch(8) is probably the way to go. Vince
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