rootsh(1)

📦 version 1.5.3, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ rootsh(1) — a logging wrapper for shells ✨

okay bestie, welcome to rootsh 💖 this is the manual page for it, brought to you by Gerhard Lausser, and honestly? she's serving quiet competence. let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

rootsh — it's a logging wrapper for shells. that's the whole vibe. a shell, but it takes notes. 📝

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

rootsh [OPTION]... [--] [COMMANDS]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So what it does is: it starts a shell with logging of input/output. like, every keystroke and every result, written down. it's giving ✨witness protection but make it bash✨.

okay but here's the thing you NEED to hear, no cap:

rootsh must be started via sudo if you want to become root. It does not raise your privileges on its own. periodt. it's a logger, not a hacker. 💀

You can run rootsh as a standalone application if you only want to log your own user's session — super valid, lowkey the cozy option 🫶.

And if you call rootsh with additional commands, those commands get passed to the shell. that's it, that's the tea.

the options, bestie ☕

  • -i, --initial — makes the shell a login shell. main character energy, full login ritual 🌈
  • -u, --user=USER — runs the shell as a non-root user. be someone else, respectfully 💜
  • -f, --logfile=FILE — name of the file you want to write the logs to (standalone only)
  • -d, --logdir=DIR — the directory where you want your logfile written (standalone only)
  • --no-logfile — switch off logging to a file (standalone only) 🚫📄
  • --no-syslog — switch off logging to syslog (standalone only) 🚫📡
  • -h, --help — display this help and exit. the classic. we love her 🎀
  • -V, --version — output version and capability information and exit
  • -- — stop scanning for command line options. everything found after -- will be passed to the shell with -c

and then, the cutest little default:

No parameters mean start a rootshell. 🐚✨

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

  • sudo rootsh — start a logged root shell. the moment. the icon. 👑
  • sudo rootsh -u oracle — start a logged shell in the context of user oracle.
  • rootsh -f mysession.log --no-syslog — start a new shell for your user id, write protocol into mysession.log, do not send anything to syslog. this is identical to "script -f mysession.log".
  • rootsh -i -u oracle lsnrctl stop — run command "lsnrctl stop" as user oracle. (this will call sh -c "lsnrctl stop")
  • rootsh -i -u oracle -- ls -l — run command "ls -l" as user oracle. (this will call sh -c "ls -l")

see how the -- one and the no--- one both just do sh -c? yeah. consistency, we stan. 💖

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, bestie. Report bugs to Corey Henderson <corman@cormander.com> 🫶

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

The full documentation for rootsh can be found at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/rootsh — go read it, iykyk 🦋

Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

so like — free software, copy conditions live in the source, and there is NO warranty, not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. fr fr, don't come for her if something breaks. 🙈

okay that's the whole page!! 💖 this was the rootsh(1) manual, dated July 2004, from the rootsh package, written by Gerhard Lausser. mwah, go log something responsibly, bestie 🎀✨

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