How can i see what my sister was doing on the web

VladP12

Im using a laptop and i sometimes let my sis use it to serf the web. When i come back the HISTORY in my opera and mozzilla web browser is completely erased. Is there a file or something like a file that shows all the websites visited for that day or shows all the visited sites since this computer was up. Its been up for about a month or 2 and im root.

Plz help me out cause i think my sis is trying to hide something and wont comffess.

Thank you

hongkongdragon · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 14 Location: London, UK

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

well you have a number of options either systematically backup the web-browers files in the users home directory with a cron and/or script. or you can user a sniffer to capture all the packets and snoop through that. thoses are just two that come to mind.
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VladP12 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject:

My friends has a friend who is using linux and he said that there is a file (didnt tell me the name or location of it, still trying to get it from him but i cant reach him) and inside the file is the list of all the websites visited.

Do u guys have any ideas on what it is or where it is?

tnx

nobspangle · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject:

here's a long winded one.
Set up a local dns server and activate query logging, then you have a list of every domain name searched.

VladP12 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:30 pm Post subject:

im only 15. Im still learning linux as its been bout 3 months since i started using it.

Tell me the easiest way to do this step by step if u can.

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

VladP12 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject:

like where can i find this grep file? home dir, root dir? where i need answers

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

grep is a program that will search files for specified text

VladP12 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject:

ill try grep right now

so if i want to check to see where forums.gentoo.org is located inside a file all i do is

grep forums.gentoo.org ??

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

did you?

VladP12 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject:

i did but i didnt understan anything. Im still learning.

Can u or some1 plz give me the command using grep that searches for forums.gentoo.org?

zeky · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject:

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

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VladP12 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

if you
run ntop you will be asked for a password...
type in a password, them verfiy it
Then if you Ctrl-C it once it starts to run normally.

then type

hongkongdragon · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 14 Location: London, UK

omg, I can't believe you are teaching this guy how to spy on his sister!!

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you, kid?

VladP12 · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject:

Hey its my pc and for all i noe she could be looking at P**N. That happened before and even before that. So i want to know whats going on on my LapTop and why she is erasing the history out of my web browser.

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

As a post note, if she doesn't have her own user account you should set her up one that way u won't lose your history when she deletes hers.
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silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK

Note: this is for information only; I do not condone `spying` on people's web access, but if I was you I would tell your sister that she shouldn't visit any "inappropriate" websites while she uses *your* laptop to access the 'net.

Emerge a proxy (eg squid) and then you set your web browser to connect through that (port 3128 is default). Not only will it allow you to log every website visited but it also caches the data so it should speed up browsing.

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

Dude, seriously, as a sysadmin, you have to trust your users at least a little bit. You can't just always pry into what they are doing. If you think she is doing something to fuck up your box, I fully agree with you wanting to know what she is up to, but if all she's doing is browsing the web, just leave her be and let her have her privacy. Believe me, she'll eventually find out that you're trying to spy on her and that loss of trust is something you will probably never get back for the rest of your life from her. Maybe she has a blog or LiveJournal or something. Really, would you like having someone watching everything you do?

If all she's doing is looking at porn, just leave her be. That's not a big deal. Really, she could do a hell of a lot worse than that.

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

scooterphish · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject:

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033