Man page 8 : sudoreplay

sudoreplay - replay sudo session logs

sudoreplay [-d directory] [-f filter] [-m max_wait] [-s speed_factor] ID

sudoreplay [-d directory] -l [search expression]

sudoreplay plays back or lists the session 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 be a six character sequence of digits and upper case letters, e.g. 0100A5, which is logged by sudo when a command is run with session logging enabled.

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 output has not been redirected, sudoreplay will act on the following keys:

' ' (space) 8 Pause output; press any key to resume.

'<' 8 Reduce the playback speed by one half.

'>' 8 Double the playback speed.

sudoreplay accepts the following command line options:

-d directory 12 Use directory to for the session logs instead of the default, /var/log/sudo-io.

-f filter 12 By default, sudoreplay will play back the command's standard output, standard error and tty output. The -f option can be used to select which of these to output. The filter argument is a comma-separated list, consisting of one or more of following: stdout, stderr, and ttyout.

-l 12 Enable list mode. In this mode, sudoreplay will list available session IDs. 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 command pattern 8 Evaluates to true if the command run matches command pattern. On systems with POSIX regular expression support, the pattern may be an extended regular expression. On systems without POSIX regular expression support, a simple substring match is performed instead.

cwd directory 8 Evaluates to true if the command was run with the specified current working directory.

fromdate date 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 Evaluates to true if the command was run on the specified terminal device. The tty should be specified without the /dev/ prefix, e.g. tty01 instead of /dev/tty01.

user user name 8 Evaluates to true if the ID matches a command run by user name.
            .Sp Predicates may be abbreviated to the shortest unique string (currently all predicates may be shortened to a single character). .Sp Predicates may be combined using and, or and ! operators as well as Aq(Aq and Aq)Aq for 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 12 Specify an upper bound on how long to wait between key presses or output data. By default, sudo_replay 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.

-s speed_factor 12 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 12 The -V (version) option causes sudoreplay to print its version number and exit.

4.1. Date and time format ▲

/var/log/sudo-io 24 The default I/O log directory.

/var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/log 24 Example session log info.

/var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/stdin 24 Example session standard input log.

/var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/stdout 24 Example session standard output log.

/var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/stderr 24 Example session standard error log.

/var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/ttyin 24 Example session tty input file.

/var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/ttyout 24 Example session tty output file.

/var/log/sudo-io/00/00/01/timing 24 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.

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 Aq/bin/[a-z]*shAq

List sessions run by jeff or bob on the console:

sudoreplay -l ( user jeff or user bob ) tty console

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Todd C. Miller

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