Track Account Activity with Audit Trail on Ubuntu For Free

How to keep a detailed audit trail of what's being done on your Linux systems The ac command displays statistics about how long users have been logged on. The lastcomm command shows information about previous executed commands. The accton command turns process accounting on or off.

Solution Login to the linux box and assume root. ... Edit /etc/profile and add the following lines to the bottom of the file: ... Save and exit /etc/profile. Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and add the following lines to the bottom of the file: ... Save and exit /etc/rsyslog.conf.

Use the compliance portal to turn on auditing Or to go directly to the Audit page, use . If auditing isn't turned on for your organization, a banner is displayed prompting you start recording user and admin activity.

The ausearch utility allows you to search Audit log files for specific events. By default, ausearch searches the /var/log/audit/audit. log file. You can specify a different file using the ausearch options -if file_name command.

The basic setup of the audit daemon is done by editing /etc/audit/auditd. conf . You may also use YaST to configure the basic settings by calling YaST ? Security and Users ? Linux Audit Framework (LAF).

Solution Login to the linux box and assume root. ... Edit /etc/profile and add the following lines to the bottom of the file: ... Save and exit /etc/profile. Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and add the following lines to the bottom of the file: ... Save and exit /etc/rsyslog.conf.

Audit information about Ubuntu systems is provided by auditd, the Linux audit daemon. The default location of the auditd log file is /var/log/audit/audit. log. This also allows you to view commands like ausearch and aureport to parse and analyze audit logs.

To enable Audit Trail, in Setup, select Security | Security Settings, and check Enable Audit Logging Data Collection. Note Audit Trail data is available only after enabling.