<p>Look for a tool called rootshell. It's like a full session recorder history tool with remote archival ability. Set it up as roots shell on sudo and logout on closing rootshell.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 23, 2012 9:15 AM, "James Sumners" <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have a situation where I'm being forced to allow a remote installer<br>
to have root level sudo access to install their company's product<br>
(don't like it, but it's out of my hands). Technically, I have the<br>
system setup such that they should not need such access, but I can't<br>
change the monkey's script. Anyway, I'd like to be able to sort of<br>
"snapshot" my file system before I let them in so that I can go back<br>
and look at a before and after difference. Do any of you know of such<br>
a tool? Could this be done with rsync?<br>
<br>
I've read that LVM supports snapshots at the block level. Seeing as<br>
they are block level snapshots I don't see how that will help me<br>
figure out what the installer changed. I'd be able to revert the<br>
changes, but not study them.<br>
<br>
--<br>
James Sumners<br>
<a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br>
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it<br>
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become<br>
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br>
<br>
Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>
CH:D 59<br>
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