Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/12/15 8:09 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> In article <mailman.8184.1439375524.904.bug-bash@gnu.org>,
> aixtools  <aixtools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In short, having it included in ./configure simply give it much more 
>> visibility - and perhaps adoption.
> 
> Personally, I think that having bash send executed commands to syslog
> is an invasion of privacy; I'm surprised such a feature is even there
> at all...

And this is why it's not easy to turn on.  It's there for that small
set of system administrators who need it to satisfy some external
auditing requirement (in some cases legally required) -- that's why it's
available in the first place.

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