Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 20:41:07 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell history files Message-ID: <199912311941.UAA14162@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Ben Smithurst wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> aunty wrote:
> > Is there some way to stop users from deleting their .bash_history files?
>
> Try "chflags sunlnk" on them, it might work.
That won't prevent from ``cp /dev/null .bash_history'' to
effectively delete the history.
Sue, why do you want to have the users' history files preserved
anyway? If this is for user monitoring, then it is a bad way.
It is unreliable and can easily be faked and forged.
Better use process accounting for this (see ``man lastcomm''
and ``man 8 sa'').
Regards
Oliver
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