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Date:      Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:58:51 +0000
From:      Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munkboxen.mine.nu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Keylogging for a tty session
Message-ID:  <20020814015851.A79240@munkboxen.mine.nu>

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How can I effectively log all keystrokes entered by a user in a login
session?

The purpose of the exercise is to audit the changes made by a 'staff'
member logging in on a specific account (non UID 0) and to use the logs
for later documentation purposes.

Currently I'm using a pretty simplistic method:

[1:53:30] munk@munkboxen /home/munk# cat /usr/local/ircd/.login
script -a ircd.scp

using the 'script' utility to append everything to the irc.scp file
automatically after the user logins in via the ~/.login file.

However this holds the problem that to stop logging (either inadvertently or
otherwise), the user only has to press 'ctrl-d' or type exit to stop the
script utility from logging.

I can't think of an easy way of invoking the 'watch'/snp device to
capture the data - does anyone have any similar experience with this,
perhaps even a kernel level solution ala the snp device?

Thanks in advance,
Jez

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