snooping into user terminals

[Jacob_2]

Hi,
As root , can I peek into user terminals.
Third party s/w like "doublevision" do work, but is there a more native way to do it with scripts.
Thanks

[harry d brown jr]

Not really. What kind of user terminals (login methods) are we talking about? If it's a security issue, then I would suggest locking all users out of shell prompts and keep them in their applications.

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harry

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I'm not sure exactly what you want to do or see. Have a look at the 'script' command. You may find it (at least) helpful.

# man script

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jacob_2]

Who ever is logged into the server need to be watched.
As long as the user has a valid "tty" I need to sneek in.
Ofcourse, I can have a .profile (of the user ) do a "script" into a logfile & clean it up on his way out (logout). This way I can tail the user commands.
But I need it more specific to the "tty".

ie. a single user can be logged in on more than once and doing differnt jobs.

thanks for the replies

[harry d brown jr]

You can "look" at other X windows:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/X11/Networking/xwatchwin-1.1.1/

Maybe something like sniff or snoop, but that would not account for serial based terminals.

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harry

[Craig Rants]

Becareful doing this unless you have some backing from your management and the legal department. If you come across information in the process of doing your job that is one thing. However, if you are intentionally looking at the work of users, especially spying on their terminals, they must have a "Reasonable Expectation" that you will be doing this type of monitoring, i.e.. They have signed a usage document allowing you to monitor in this specific manner. Otherwise, you and your company could be facing some serious legal issues.

Just a head up.

C

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Jacob
If you are running universe on your server then have a look at tandem.

TANDEM

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Use TANDEM to display or control the input and output
displayed on another user's terminal from your terminal. You
must be a UniVerse Administrator logged in to the uniVerse account
to use TANDEM.


Paula

[Jacob_2]

Craig: Thanks for the sound advise.

Paula: I will Try this TANDEM .Thanks

[Jack C. Mahaffey]

If you use citrix MetaFrame on the Server, you can use remote control and take over control or watch what's going on.
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