user monitoring tools

[Scott J. Henson]

Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> I have been making a push my company to switch our users to linux.
> With the release of Vista and Office 2007, and the prospect of having
> to upgrade,
> management is finally starting to listen.
> 
> We are currently logging our users activites especially relating to
> filenames and program access.  We log when a user accesses a file,
> renames a file, transfers the file to a removable media, what files
> they transfered to what website, what files they attached to an email.
> 
> In order to convince my boss to start switching to linux, i need to be
> able to log the same information as our current windows solution.
> Any suggestions?  Preferable something that is in a repository.
>

I don't know of anything that does this out of the box, but
I believe that selinux can do what you want.  Also linux has
a pretty descent resource accounting framework.  That might
also be adapted for your usage.  The packages you would be
looking for are selinux-* and acct.  Looking over acct, it
might be able to do exactly what you want.  At least as far
as within the computer goes.  To do the network part,
selinux might be your friend, otherwise tcpdump.

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Scott Henson
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