You can set it to world writable:
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....
Question for all sysadmins.
How do you keep track of what commands each user uses on his account. I thought an easy way is to monitor .bash_history, however those files can be "edited" by the user.
Is there a permission combination that will allow the shell to record to it but yet they can't edit... (12 Replies)
During the course of the session before I logout I see some of the commands listed from my previous session but not from my current session and after I logout and log back in I see the commands which I ran before logging out.
Does the .bash_history stay in the buffer or someplace else then?
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Hi Experts,
I know my question would be strange but i need to understand how the .bash_history file is logging user actions (the mechanism) and if possible modify it to include also the date/time of every action done by the user.
Sample file:
# more .bash_history
ssh <IP address> -l axadmin... (3 Replies)
Hi - user commands are written in . bash_history of that user when he logs out. my bash_history file shows. not sure what that number means
#1329618972
ls -la
#1329618978
ls
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ls -la
my bash_profile looks like this
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
export... (3 Replies)
rm -rf .bash_history some one ran rm -rf .bash_history on my Linux server(SUSE),I can see this command being run in current history, but I want the OLD history as well,can I recover the old history back. (9 Replies)
Hi would like to ask if there is anyway to display .bash_history with timestamp using shell script?
i know that you should use history command with HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T " to display it in terminal but it does not work when i use it on shell script. It seem that you can't run history... (1 Reply)
I am using the bash shell.
When I view my recent command history using the "history" command from the prompt, it only shows me the commands starting at #928.
The commands I need are earlier than that, but I can't figure out how to make the other 927 display.
They are in my .bash_history... (1 Reply)