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- From: syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
- Subject: Logging outgoing telnet(1) sessions.
- Message-ID: <syscrc.721002634@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: Georgia State University
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:30:34 GMT
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- Is it possible with standard BSD telnet(1) and syslogd(1m) to create
- a log entry for outgoing telnet sessions. I know that incoming login(1)
- sessions can be logged but I'm interested in the other way. Something
- like a...
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- Nov 5 17:24:42 pickle telnet[1234]: johnd executed "telnet 131.96.1.6".
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- This would be helpful while tracing intrusions.
-
- I'm on a SGI (IRIX 4.0) which is System V based and the only way I know of
- telling if another person has telneted out of the system is to dig around
- in the accounting records which is cumbersome and still doesn't tell me
- the outging host. IRIX has a BSD-type telnet(1) and syslogd(1m).
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