TECH TIPS
Track the shell history of specific users
Bonn
02.12.2003
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Use this script to track and keep a record of the shell history of specific users.
Code
#!/bin/ksh
#
# Script to invoke ksh with invoking user specific shell history file.
#
# See if "-" has been pased on command line. If so then the switch user should
# be the second argument. If not it should be the first argument.
if [ $1 = - ]
then SWUSER=$2
else SWUSER=$1
fi
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# Set variable for home directory switch user.
SWUSERHOME=`ls -d ~$SWUSER`
# Set user name of invoking user to be used as suffix for shell history file.
RLUSER=`who am i |awk '{print $1}'`
# Run system su with arguments passed in and creating individual shell history
# file in the directory determined above.
su $@ -c "HISTFILE=$SWUSERHOME/.sh_history.$RLUSER;export HISTFILE;exec ksh -o vi"
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