On 11/14/06, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote: > I sometimes need to allow sub-contracted admins root ssh access to my > servers. Later, I always wonder what they did during access. > > Is there any shell that provides all shell abilities to the remote user > but monitors/emails a designated user each command executed in the shell > terminal and does not allow the user (even root) to modify the bash history file or > similar shell history file, or maybe sending each command by email to a > remote server, so that modifying history becomes out of question? You could also use the script and ttysnoop utilities to monitor activity. - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net