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A simple way to check user activity on loaned Macs
Authored by: pub3abn on Sep 05, '06 08:43:52AM

What you really need is some sort of background process that will record to a log file: programs run, sites visited, files downloaded, file system changes. Hopefully something that would run invisibly as root, and which they would not have permissions to mess with.

If anyone has the motivation and know-how to produce something like this, it would be useful to me at work, as we have had occasional incidents (apparently) of malicious and suspicious activity going on.



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A simple way to check user activity on loaned Macs
Authored by: dsouth on Sep 06, '06 10:55:01AM

The process accounting system can do some of those things. View the manpages for `accton` or `lastcomm` for more info. By defualt process accouting is off and the standard accounting directory doesn't exist under MacOS, but the executables are present.

Note that if you turn paccting on, you'll need to manage the accounting log files -- they can grow quite large over time.

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