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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:25:55 -0500
From:      "J. Hellenthal" <jhellenthal@dataix.net>
To:        Selphie Keller <selphie.keller@gmail.com>
Cc:        el kalin <kalin@el.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: root .history
Message-ID:  <C811F001-5474-444A-8CAF-E8E618779ECA@dataix.net>
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Seems a little extreme, you could check other users .cshrc .tcshrc flies =
and see if there is a builtin mech for (history -c) in a trap or =
otherwise that might explain it.

If root history is a concern, audit should probably setup on that system =
if it runs that deep in the infrastructure before evaluating a secure =
level and chflags.=20




> On Mar 31, 2020, at 13:09, Selphie Keller <selphie.keller@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> You could set a higher securelevel and use system flags like:
> chflags sappnd .history
> Which will prevent it from being erased and only allow appending.
>=20
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 10:59, el kalin <kalin@el.net> wrote:
>=20
>> hi all...
>>=20
>> noticed that over night the shell .history file for root was emptied. =
the
>> file is there but there is no history in it. this is unusual and it's =
the
>> second time it happens in 2 months. it's particularly peculiar since =
nobody
>> else has the root password for this machine. i can't see any ssh =
access in
>> auth.log and ssh access is limited to a handful of ips...  how could =
i
>> figure out what is emptying the .history file?
>>=20
>> thanks...
>>=20
>> also, the .cshrc looks like this:
>>=20
>>    set promptchars =3D "%#"
>>=20
>>        set filec
>>        set history =3D 1000
>>        set savehist =3D (1000 merge)
>>        set autolist =3D ambiguous
>>        # Use history to aid expansion
>>        set autoexpand
>>        set autorehash
>>        set mail =3D (/var/mail/$USER)
>>        if ( $?tcsh ) then
>>                bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
>>                bindkey -k up history-search-backward
>>                bindkey -k down history-search-forward
>>        endif
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--=20

J. Hellenthal

The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven =
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