BOFH logging for ASH in Busybox?

Paul Fox pgf at brightstareng.com
Wed Sep 21 22:48:47 UTC 2005


 > > 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.

thanks for confirming that larry.  i knew what BOFH stood for, so
i had my suspicions.  :-)

paul
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