Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:24:54 +0000 From: Emre <emre@iris.vsrc.uab.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .bash_history and permissions Message-ID: <20000127202454.A12343@iris.vsrc.uab.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000127172415.A19202@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 05:24:16PM -0600 References: <20000127155328.A32492@iris.vsrc.uab.edu> <20000127172415.A19202@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 05:24:16PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > Delete permission comes from the directory, not the file. No amount of > chmod'ing the file will affect it. Hmm, so If I took out write permission for the directory, the user wouldn't be able to delete his .bash_history, correct? (or any file inside it for that matter) > Under FreeBSD, you can run "chflags sappnd,sunlnk .bash_history" to > make the file undeletable, append-only. Under other Unixes, the user > can simply do a "cp /dev/null ~/.bash_history && kill -9 $$" to log out > with no history file. Thanks, the chflags method worked for me... -- DSS/DH 1024/4064: 0x5E9EE10A/0x2486FEBE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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