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Article #558Re: Can ftp be made to log outgoing calls ?
From: Scott D. Wells
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:12
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:12
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In a previous article, psanders@srd.bt.co.uk (Paul Sanders) says:
>After a long fight I've managed to convince my higher powers that
>connections to the outside world are a Good Thing. However, they
>want us to have a 6 month trial, after which we will review its
>usage. So, I'm looking for a way of getting ftp (and possibly
>telnet and rlogin, but these aren't so important) to log:
>
> o who invoked it
> o from what machine it was invoked
> o where did it connect to
> o what was downloaded
>
>I've thought about doing this with by writing a shell script wrapper to
>ftp but I'm sure someone somewhere must already have done it.
>
>Can someone point me in the right direction ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul.
>
>--
> Paul Sanders psanders@srd.bt.co.uk Tel: +44 473 645716
> Software Research, BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath IPSWICH IP5 7RE
> Is all that we or see or seem but a dream within a dream ?
>
Yes, it can be done. You will probably need to write a shell script
that will write the useres uid toa file, then invoke the ftp/telnet/rlo
programs.
I'm not a Unix buff, so I could be wrong. I know it can be don, though,
I have read some of the logs of it.
Scott
ca393@po.cwru.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!rpi!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!ca393 From: ca393@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott D. Wells) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Can ftp be made to log outgoing calls ? Date: 9 Oct 1992 00:12:33 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 42 Message-ID: <1b2iphINNr27@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <1992Oct6.091412.955@srd.bt.co.uk> Reply-To: ca393@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott D. Wells) NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu