Re: Account Logs???
From: Martin Meserve (K7MEM_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 02/27/04
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 13:06:14 -0800
Dave Mendez <dhmendez@mail.cinvestav.mx> wrote in message news:<c1k7im$1jefei$2@ID-80684.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> When the administrator creates or deletes an account is there any log
> file????? Where???
There isn't any automatic logging, that I know of, so I wrote my
own. At our place user accounts can be added/deleted/modified by
any of 4 or 5 administrators. We don't have any problem getting in
each other way but we needed a way to log changes. The script I
wrote runs from cron every hour. It keeps a copy of the password
file from the last check and does a "diff" with the current one.
If there is a change, the "diff" output goes to a log file along
with the top 10 users from the "last" command. If there is no activity
I just enter a one line timestamp. The script changes the log file
every week so each log only shows a weeks worth of data.
To make things easy to read I added a cgi-script, so that the last
eight log files can be view with a web browser. The logs are continuously
rotated and saved. I have been running this thing for about 2 years
and can track every change to the administrator that changed it.
I do a similar thing for the master NIS "hosts" table, but that doesn't
get changed that often so I only check and record every 6 hours.
All of these are simple to write and give you an instant view of
the user accounts. You don't even need to be on a Unix box to view
the changes. Any web browser on any machine can see it. If you need
to protect it from users viewing, you can add password protection
to the page(s).
Martin
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