Sudoscriptd/sudoshell are a pair of Perl scripts that provide an audited shell using sudo. If you are familiar with sudo, you might well ask "doesnt running a shell under sudo defeat the purpose of the tool?" Yes and no. One reason for running sudo is to limit what commands can be run by users. These scripts do indeed defeat that purpose. But another reason to run sudo is to maintain an audit trail of commands issued by users with root privilege. These scripts preserve that audit trail by logging all terminal output to log files.