Log exit status of command run by sudo

[opty77]

Please log exit status of a command run by sudo in sudoers_policy_close() so one can find out how it ended when reading the log.

[opty77]

Today, I finally wrote some temporary workaround for bash:

# exit status logging sudo
esudo() {
    (sleep 1 && exec sudo $@) &
    
    local sudo_pid=$!
    
    fg
    
    local sudo_exit_status=$?
    
    logger --id=$sudo_pid -t sudo --rfc5424=notq -p authpriv.notice "COMMAND exited with $sudo_exit_status"
    
    return $sudo_exit_status
}

[opty77]

esudo doesn't like backgrounding/piping so here comes fsudo:

# exit status logging sudo using temporary file due to backgrounding/piping
# TODO: completion
fsudo() {
    local sudo_pid_file=`mktemp -p /run/user/$(id -u)/ fsudo.XXXXXXXX`
    
    bash -c "echo \$\$ > $sudo_pid_file && exec sudo $*"
    
    local sudo_exit_status=$?
    
    logger --id=`cat $sudo_pid_file` -t sudo --rfc5424=notq -p authpriv.notice "COMMAND exited with $sudo_exit_status"
    
    rm $sudo_pid_file
    
    return $sudo_exit_status
}

WARNING: Developed on Slackware -current and tested just simple commands!

[millert]

Sudo 1.9.8 includes a new "log_exit_status" sudoers setting that enables logging exit status.

[opty77]

Works, thanks!