SUDO LOG FILE

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Wed Apr 10 20:27:05 EDT 2002


In message <13.9af7d91.29e61bda at aol.com>
	so spake  (Octavio.Alvarez):

> I just installed sudo on our system successfully. I noticed that any user 
> that are on the sudoer file can actually remove the sudo.log file. My 
> question is how do I prevent sudoers from deleting or removing the sudo.log 
> file.

If your operating system has support for append-only files you can
use those for the log file (though that makes log rotation problematic).
You can also use syslog to log sudo activity to a different (more
restrictive) machine.

 - todd



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