Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist
Date	2015-08-12 09:19 -0400
Message-ID	<mailman.8198.1439385607.904.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 8/12/15 8:09 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> In article <mailman.8184.1439375524.904.bug-bash@gnu.org>,
> aixtools  <aixtools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In short, having it included in ./configure simply give it much more 
>> visibility - and perhaps adoption.
> 
> Personally, I think that having bash send executed commands to syslog
> is an invasion of privacy; I'm surprised such a feature is even there
> at all...

And this is why it's not easy to turn on.  It's there for that small
set of system administrators who need it to satisfy some external
auditing requirement (in some cases legally required) -- that's why it's
available in the first place.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist aixtools <aixtools@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 12:31 +0200
  Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2015-08-12 12:09 +0000
    Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2015-08-12 09:06 -0400
    Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-08-12 09:19 -0400
    Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist aixtools <aixtools@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 20:48 +0200

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