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Article #568Re: Can ftp be made to log outgoing calls ?
From: Rik Harris
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:51
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:51
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ca393@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott D. Wells) writes: >> 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. >> >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. It depends if the logging is important, or not. Ftp is not a privileged program, so anyone can compile their own version, if they felt they had a need to get around the logging. rik. -- Rik Harris - rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au +61 3 571-2895 (AH & ans.mach) +61 3 573-2679 (BH) Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Australia -- Rik Harris - rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au +61 3 571-2895 (AH & ans.mach) +61 3 573-2679 (BH) Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Australia
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!nella15.cc.monash.edu.au!rik From: rik@nella15.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) Subject: Re: Can ftp be made to log outgoing calls ? Message-ID: <rik.718869101@nella15.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Reply-To: rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia. References: <1992Oct6.091412.955@srd.bt.co.uk> <1b2iphINNr27@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:51:41 GMT Lines: 35