BOFH logging for ASH in Busybox?

Larry Doolittle ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov
Wed Sep 21 22:44:37 UTC 2005


Paul -

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:25:35PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> 
> googling for "BOFH logging" turned up nothing obvious in the
> first page of results.
> what is it?

I more commonly refer to it as "fascist logging".
Recording everything the user types.  Good for spying
on a user.  In the best of worlds, it's a method of
last resort for troubleshooting.  In other cases,
it's a horrible and possibly illegal invasion of
privacy.  Your call.

In the case of a shell, it's indistinguishable from a
non-volatile history buffer, like Bash's $HISTFILE.

     - Larry
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