RE: email when user su's to root

Very interesting! Thanks to all who responded. I'm going to try this and see
how it goes.

Anne

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do you need to know, realtime, when someone's su'ing to root? Would a
daily or hourly report work?

Others have excellent input on this topic. I just want to point out that for
this type of monitoring and notification, it's better to use "tail -f"
instead of a cron job to repeatedly scan the log file. I have some notes
about this. See "How to get alert by reading log files" at
http://yong321.freeshell.org/computer/logfile.html

Basically, you run tail -f <the file you're monitoring> | filter and email
command

This approach has much less overheard and sends email almost immediately. On
Linux, you can use -s option to change probing interval to a longer time if
you think once-per-second is too frequent.

Yong Huang




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