From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 31 8:55:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB4F15317 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09733 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 17:55:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 17:55:23 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912311655.RAA09733@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell history files Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG aunty@comcen.com.au wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Is there some way to stop users from deleting their .bash_history files? Tell them not to delete them. :-) Technically, there is no way. If you can write to the file, you can effectively delete it. Well, you could make them append-only (see ``man chflags'') and raise the secure-level (see ``man init''), but bash probably doesn't like this, because it wants to overwrite the file. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message