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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting .bash_history Post 302346956 by chompy on Monday 24th of August 2009 01:20:57 PM
Old 08-24-2009
No you are correct.

You can set it to world writable:
Code:
chown root:root .bash_history
chmod 662 .bash_history

The user would be able write to it, but not read it. But then again, anybody could write to it, allowing the user or whoever really to inject bogus entries or even overwrite the file with a blank file. Since they can write to it.... Smilie

Last edited by chompy; 08-24-2009 at 02:28 PM..
 

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NAME
gpe-question - GPE interface for asking questions from shell scripts. SYNOPSIS
gpe-question [---icon] name {--question "Question text"} {--buttons icon1:text1} [icon2:text2 ...] DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. gpe-question provides dialogues to raise a question within the GPE Palmtop Environment with cancel and ok buttons. OPTIONS
--question STRING The question to ask the user via the dialogue. --buttons type:label The type and label of the button(s) to be shown. Repeat for additional buttons. EXAMPLES
gpe-question "test" --question "Do you want to check first?" --buttons YES:yes NO:no AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. AUTHOR
Moray Allen Author. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Neil Williams Debian 1 January 16, 2007 GPE-QUESTION(1)
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