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I am administering a Ubuntu server (Trusty) where several users have been given permission to run apt-get, but only two administrators have full sudo permission.
I want to keep track of who installs what on the server. The /var/log/apt/history.log maintains a log of what apt-get commands were run. However, this does not keep track of the user who ran the command. Is there a work around this?
No. For apt-get the one installing applications was the user root since he's the only one that can write on the entire filesystem. You must check instead the auth.log file for the specific users that ran apt-get using sudo. If they use sudo to login as root, then there's nothing much you can do.
