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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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