Very Computer

Does anyone know how to log every character
that is typed during telnet and ftp sessions?

Is this already being done somewhere by default?

Thanks in advance,
Mike H.

For ftp, you need to start the daemon with the -l -d options.
This will cause ftpd to log everything to syslog.   Check
man ftpd for more info on this.

Ted

you can't as far as i know, what happens if a user uses a graphical ftp
client? Although commands go through still they originate by a graphical
client.

if you look at an ftp log you will see that only the starting and
stopping of sessions is recorded b/c nothing else is possible to
record....if you were on teh command line within a shell of course your
history file would show your keystrokes but and actually if a person
uses telnet they would be in a shell so in a telnet session just check
the user's history file, with ftp it's not possible

This comment is a red herring. ftp uses a certain command set, and these
commands are always used, so whatever you do with a mouse would be
translated into e.g. CWD ...

My ftp transfers are logged to /var/log/xferlog.

man ftpd will tell you how to specify what to log and where to log it,  
you have to then change the invocation in inetd.conf and/or the
configuration in the /etc/ftp* files. Depending on what you do you may
have to fiddle with /etc/syslog.conf as well.

HTH