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Title:** Hackers **
Moderator:XDELTA::HOFFMAN
Created:Sun Jan 31 1988
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1838
Total number of notes:13578

1105.0. "Session log w/o SET HOST" by VAXSPO::PEDRO (Pedro Paulo Cunha, PSS-SP/Brazil) Fri Aug 24 1990 10:07

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1105.1a couple ideas.SWSVAX::MORRISSkip MorrisFri Aug 24 1990 14:4012
1105.2DSC000::CWINPENNYMon May 19 1997 15:015
    
    I need to do what was asked for in .0. Where can I find the "Watch" or
    "Photo" utilities?
    
    Chris
1105.3Supervisor series! (DECUS)EVMS::EVERHARTMon May 19 1997 15:3929
    I suggest getting hold of the supervisor series. The latest version,
    available on sigtapes, decus CDs, or places like ftp.wku.edu
    (see supervisor.zip) has the ability to log sessions. It is only
    for vax, but we're talking vax here...and it comes with src.
    
    For alpha, a freebie driver that intercepts the terminal port-class
    interface exists, though it'll do only one terminal at a time.
    
    There really isn't any simple way to avoid having two processes
    though, with this sort of function. One does the logging, the other
    is the user session.
    
    Note too that watch or supervisor will NOT work with RT terminals.
    For that, though, logger or photo will work...as will BOSS. 
    
    The folks wanting to do this should be aware that capturing
    keystrokes and output can:
    1. take lots of disk, and
    2. be very confusing.
    
    2 is the case because you can write obscure DCL, so that typing
    something like "del" can be made to mean "copy [somewhere]*.*
    somewhere-else:" or whatnot. If someone knows (s)he's being watched,
    they can spread the confusion over a lot of extra output, and express
    things in hex that may look like innocent calculations in part...
    
    Remember...for an audit log to do you much good, someone has to know
    what it means.