Re: How to mail the name of the user that logged off?

[Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM comcast net>]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:11:40 -0500
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to> wrote:
>
> > It won't work against hostile users unless you also change ownership of
> > their home directory. Otherwise they will be able to delete the file.
>
> A little further down in the thread, I think we got 'er beat with chattr.
>
> At least, I haven't seen anyone come up with a good counter for that one so
> far....

I've been known to log off by typing:

   exec /bin/true

when I wanted to avoid a shell's normal exit processing for some
reason.

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