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Christoph: Sudosh (command) moved to Sudosh

2007-04-26T02:03:47Z

Sudosh (command) moved to Sudosh

Christoph at 02:03, 26 April 2007

2007-04-26T02:03:40Z

Christoph: Removed "References" section

2006-05-22T23:53:33Z

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'''sudosh''' is a filter and can be used as a login shell. <tt>sudosh</tt> takes advantage of pty devices in order to sit between the user's keyboard and a program, in this case a shell.

<tt>sudosh</tt> was designed specifically to be used in conjunction with [[Sudo (command)|sudo]] or by itself as a login shell. <tt>sudosh</tt> allows the execution of a [[Superuser|root]] or user shell with logging. Every command the user types within the root shell is logged as well as the output.

This is different then <code>"sudo -s"</code> or <code>"sudo /bin/sh"</code> because when you use one of these or a similar method instead of <tt>sudosh</tt> to start a new shell then this new shell does not log commands typed in the new shell to [[syslog]], only the fact that a new shell started is logged. If this newly started shell supports commandline history then you can still find the commands called in the shell in a file such as <code>.sh_history</code> but if you use a shell such as [[C shell|csh]] that does not support command-line logging you are out of luck.<br>
sudosh fills this gap. No matter what shell you use, all of the command
lines are logged to syslog (including [[vi]] keystrokes.)

==See also==
* [[Sudo (command)|sudo]]
* [[Su (command)|su]]

==References==
<references />

== External links ==
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/sudosh sudosh at SourceForge]
* [http://www.sudo.ws/ sudo homepage]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudosh Wikipedia article on '''sudosh''']

[[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]

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 '''sudosh''' is a filter and can be used as a login shell. <tt>sudosh</tt> takes advantage of pty devices in order to sit between the user's keyboard and a program, in this case a shell.
-<tt>sudosh</tt> was designed specifically to be used in conjunction with [[Sudo (command)|sudo]] or by itself as a login shell. <tt>sudosh</tt> allows the execution of a [[Superuser|root]] or user shell with logging. Every command the user types within the root shell is logged as well as the output.
+<tt>sudosh</tt> was designed specifically to be used in conjunction with [[sudo]] or by itself as a login shell. <tt>sudosh</tt> allows the execution of a root or user shell with logging. Every command the user types within the root shell is logged as well as the output.
 This is different then <code>"sudo -s"</code> or <code>"sudo /bin/sh"</code> because when you use one of these or a similar method instead of <tt>sudosh</tt> to start a new shell then this new shell does not log commands typed in the new shell to [[syslog]], only the fact that a new shell started is logged. If this newly started shell supports commandline history then you can still find the commands called in the shell in a file such as <code>.sh_history</code> but if you use a shell such as [[C shell|csh]] that does not support command-line logging you are out of luck.<br>
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 ==See also==
-* [[Sudo (command)|sudo]]
+*[[sudo]]
-* [[Su (command)|su]]
+*[[su]]
-== External links ==
+==External links==
-* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/sudosh sudosh at SourceForge]
+*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/sudosh sudosh at SourceForge]
-* [http://www.sudo.ws/ sudo homepage]
+*[http://www.sudo.ws/ sudo homepage]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudosh Wikipedia article on '''sudosh''']
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudosh Wikipedia article on '''sudosh''']
 [[Category:Linux Command Line Tools]]