From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 8:34:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD7837B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 08:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) Received: by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 8A32F2E461; Fri, 4 May 2001 11:34:41 -0400 (EDT) To: "Charles Burns" , questions@freebsd.org Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: OT: FreeBSD Security tip References: From: Vivek Khera Date: 04 May 2001 11:34:40 -0400 Message-ID: Organization: Khera Communications, Inc., Rockville, MD Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Posted-To: ml.freebsd.questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to ml.freebsd.questions as well. >>>>> "CB" == Charles Burns writes: CB> To prevent a potential snoop from looking at command logs or scrolling CB> up IF at the local terminal (which is a security problem in and of CB> itself) I set all users logoff scripts to delete their command log and CB> clear the screen. Why not just set their shells *not* to keep the command log in the first place? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message