Full shell access or sudo command

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri Mar 27 14:36:33 UTC 2020


On Friday, March 27, 2020 5:15:37 AM EDT MAUPERTUIS, PHILIPPE wrote:
> Hi,
> Our sysadmins are able to use sudo to take a root shell and do whatever
> they want. On the contrary, application managers for example have only a
> limited set of sudo scripts and commands Is it possible to find if a given
> audit message (for example due to a watch on a file) has been  issued in
> the context of sudo or a shell? My goal is to be able  to search for
> potential sudo abuse through misconfiguration.

Assuming direct root login is disabled since root is a shared account, then 
any event with uid ==0 and session != -1 has to be under sudo/su.

-Steve





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