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SUDOREPLAY(8) | System Manager's Manual | SUDOREPLAY(8) |
NAME¶
sudoreplay
—
replay sudo session logs
SYNOPSIS¶
sudoreplay |
[-hnR ] [-d
dir] [-f
filter] [-m
num] [-s
num] ID |
sudoreplay |
[-h ] [-d
dir] -l [search
expression] |
DESCRIPTION¶
sudoreplay
plays back or lists the output
logs created by sudo
. When replaying,
sudoreplay
can play the session back in real-time,
or the playback speed may be adjusted (faster or slower) based on the
command line options.
The ID should either be a six
character sequence of digits and upper case letters, e.g.
0100A5
, or a pattern matching the
iolog_file
option in the sudoers file. When a command is run via
sudo
with
log_output
enabled in the sudoers file, a
TSID=ID
string is logged via syslog or to the
sudo
log file. The ID may also be
determined using sudoreplay
's list mode.
In list mode, sudoreplay
can be used to
find the ID of a session based on a number of criteria such as the user, tty
or command run.
In replay mode, if the standard input and output are connected to
a terminal and the -n
option is not specified,
sudoreplay
will operate interactively. In
interactive mode, sudoreplay
will attempt to adjust
the terminal size to match that of the session and write directly to the
terminal (not all terminals support this). Additionally, it will poll the
keyboard and act on the following keys:
- ‘
\n
’ or ‘\r
’ - Skip to the next replay event; useful for long pauses.
- ‘
- Pause output; press any key to resume.
- ‘
<
’ - Reduce the playback speed by one half.
- ‘
>
’ - Double the playback speed.
The session can be interrupted via control-C. When the session has finished, the terminal is restored to its original size if it was changed during playback.
The options are as follows:
-d
dir,--directory
=dir- Store session logs in dir instead of the default, /var/log/sudo-io.
-f
filter,--filter
=filter- Select which I/O type(s) to display. By default,
sudoreplay
will display the command's standard output, standard error and tty output. The filter argument is a comma-separated list, consisting of one or more of following: stdin, stdout, stderr, ttyin, and ttyout. -h
,--help
- Display a short help message to the standard output and exit.
-l
,--list
[search expression]- Enable “list mode”. In this mode,
sudoreplay
will list available sessions in a format similar to thesudo
log file format, sorted by file name (or sequence number). If a search expression is specified, it will be used to restrict the IDs that are displayed. An expression is composed of the following predicates:- command pattern
- Evaluates to true if the command run matches the POSIX extended regular expression pattern.
- cwd directory
- Evaluates to true if the command was run with the specified current working directory.
- fromdate date
- Evaluates to true if the command was run on or after date. See Date and time format for a description of supported date and time formats.
- group runas_group
- Evaluates to true if the command was run with the specified
runas_group. Note that unless a
runas_group was explicitly specified when
sudo
was run this field will be empty in the log. - runas runas_user
- Evaluates to true if the command was run as the specified
runas_user. Note that
sudo
runs commands as user root by default. - todate date
- Evaluates to true if the command was run on or prior to date. See Date and time format for a description of supported date and time formats.
- tty tty name
- Evaluates to true if the command was run on the specified terminal device. The tty name should be specified without the /dev/ prefix, e.g. tty01 instead of /dev/tty01.
- user user name
- Evaluates to true if the ID matches a command run by user name.
Predicates may be abbreviated to the shortest unique string.
Predicates may be combined using and, or and ! operators as well as ‘
(
’ and ‘)
’ grouping (note that parentheses must generally be escaped from the shell). The and operator is optional, adjacent predicates have an implied and unless separated by an or. -m
,--max-wait
max_wait- Specify an upper bound on how long to wait between key presses or output
data. By default,
sudoreplay
will accurately reproduce the delays between key presses or program output. However, this can be tedious when the session includes long pauses. When the-m
option is specified,sudoreplay
will limit these pauses to at most max_wait seconds. The value may be specified as a floating point number, e.g. 2.5. A max_wait of zero or less will eliminate the pauses entirely. -n
,--non-interactive
- Do not prompt for user input or attempt to re-size the terminal. The session is written to the standard output, not directly to the user's terminal.
-R
,--no-resize
- Do not attempt to re-size the terminal to match the terminal size of the session.
-s
,--speed
speed_factor- This option causes
sudoreplay
to adjust the number of seconds it will wait between key presses or program output. This can be used to slow down or speed up the display. For example, a speed_factor of 2 would make the output twice as fast whereas a speed_factor of .5 would make the output twice as slow. -V
,--version
- Print the
sudoreplay
versions version number and exit.
Date and time format¶
The time and date may be specified multiple ways, common formats include:
- HH:MM:SS am MM/DD/CCYY timezone
- 24 hour time may be used in place of am/pm.
- HH:MM:SS am Month, Day Year timezone
- 24 hour time may be used in place of am/pm, and month and day names may be abbreviated. Note that month and day of the week names must be specified in English.
- CCYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
- ISO time format
- DD Month CCYY HH:MM:SS
- The month name may be abbreviated.
Either time or date may be omitted, the am/pm and timezone are optional. If no date is specified, the current day is assumed; if no time is specified, the first second of the specified date is used. The less significant parts of both time and date may also be omitted, in which case zero is assumed.
The following are all valid time and date specifications:
- now
- The current time and date.
- tomorrow
- Exactly one day from now.
- yesterday
- 24 hours ago.
- 2 hours ago
- 2 hours ago.
- next Friday
- The first second of the Friday in the next (upcoming) week. Not to be confused with “this Friday” which would match the Friday of the current week.
- last week
- The current time but 7 days ago. This is equivalent to “a week ago”.
- a fortnight ago
- The current time but 14 days ago.
- 10:01 am 9/17/2009
- 10:01 am, September 17, 2009.
- 10:01 am
- 10:01 am on the current day.
- 10
- 10:00 am on the current day.
- 9/17/2009
- 00:00 am, September 17, 2009.
- 10:01 am Sep 17, 2009
- 10:01 am, September 17, 2009.
Note that relative time specifications do not always work as
expected. For example, the “next” qualifier is intended to be
used in conjunction with a day such as “next Monday”. When
used with units of weeks, months, years, etc the result will be one more
than expected. For example, “next week” will result in a time
exactly two weeks from now, which is probably not what was intended. This
will be addressed in a future version of
sudoreplay
.
Debugging sudoreplay¶
sudoreplay
versions 1.8.4 and higher
support a flexible debugging framework that is configured via
Debug
lines in the sudo.conf(5)
file.
For more information on configuring sudo.conf(5), please refer to its manual.
FILES¶
- /etc/sudo.conf
- Debugging framework configuration
- /var/log/sudo-io
- The default I/O log directory.
- /var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/log
- Example session log info.
- /var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/stdin
- Example session standard input log.
- /var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/stdout
- Example session standard output log.
- /var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/stderr
- Example session standard error log.
- /var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/ttyin
- Example session tty input file.
- /var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/ttyout
- Example session tty output file.
- /var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/timing
- Example session timing file.
Note that the stdin, stdout
and stderr files will be empty unless
sudo
was used as part of a pipeline for a particular
command.
EXAMPLES¶
List sessions run by user millert:
# sudoreplay -l user millert
List sessions run by user bob with a command containing the string vi:
# sudoreplay -l user bob command vi
List sessions run by user jeff that match a regular expression:
# sudoreplay -l user jeff command '/bin/[a-z]*sh'
List sessions run by jeff or bob on the console:
# sudoreplay -l ( user jeff or user bob ) tty console
SEE ALSO¶
AUTHORS¶
Many people have worked on sudo
over the
years; this version consists of code written primarily by:
See the CONTRIBUTORS file in the sudo
distribution (https://www.sudo.ws/contributors.html) for an exhaustive list
of people who have contributed to sudo
.
BUGS¶
If you feel you have found a bug in
sudoreplay
, please submit a bug report at
https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/
SUPPORT¶
Limited free support is available via the sudo-users mailing list, see https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users to subscribe or search the archives.
DISCLAIMER¶
sudoreplay
is provided “AS
IS” and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited
to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
purpose are disclaimed. See the LICENSE file distributed with
sudo
or https://www.sudo.ws/license.html for
complete details.
March 8, 2018 | Sudo 1.8.23 |