log-user-session README

log-user-session is a program to store the content of a shell session (e.g via ssh) e.g. for auditing purposes. The tool is intended to be started by the ssh server daemon. The log is tamper-proof for non-root users.

Current maintainer: Konrad Bucheli kb@open.ch

Website: https://github.com/open-ch/log-user-session

Dependencies

A C compiler and make must be installed prior to installation. You need also autoconf if you get the source code not via official release tarball (e.g. via git or via automatic generated github source tarballs). On a Debian-based Linux distribution, they can be installed like this:

sudo apt-get install autoconf gcc make

Installation

If you want to install log-user-session from source, proceed as follows:

1. Run [ -f ./configure ] || ./autogen.sh to generate the configure file if it is not ready yet

2. Run ./configure. You might first review any options with ./configure --help. The defaults are likely fine.

3. Run make

4. Run sudo make install

5. Have a look at man log-user-session for usage help.

6. Create the configuration file /etc/log-user-session.conf and integrate the tool into your sshd configuration.

Supported Platforms

This tool has been so far only tested on Linux.

Credits

Konrad Bucheli (kb@open.ch)