save commands history.

[Stuart Sears]

On Sunday 14 Mar 2004 17:10, Mike Burger wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote:
> >  --- Mohamed Kerbachi <Mohamed.Kerbachi at OTALGERIE.com>
> > escribió: > Hello,
> >
> > > Is there way to save the commands history of a user
> > > in other place than $HOME where he can't delete it ?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Maybe you can change .bash_history permission and
> > group in order to not allow the user removed it.
> >
> > Look at man chmod, man chown and man chgrp
>
> I don't think that wouldn fly...to disallow deletion, you'd have to turn
> off write capability...which would then disallow the ability for commands
> to go into the .bash_history file, in the first place.
try chattr +a on the history file? (makes it append only... can't delete it)

Stuart

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