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Re: Can ftp be made to log outgoing calls ?

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From: Rik Harris
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.
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Rik Harris - rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au
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Faculty of Computing and Information Technology,
Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Australia
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