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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find who opened/modified a file last Post 302564816 by Corona688 on Friday 14th of October 2011 04:41:13 PM
Old 10-14-2011
That's not the sort of information which gets stored in the inode, no. The file really doesn't know who modified it.

If you wanted to be really strict about it, you could create an isolated account and prevent anyone but that account from reading the file, then set up a rule with sudo to run a script which edits the file as that user. That script would be the only way people could read or edit that file.
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vigr

VIPW(8) 						    System Management Commands							   VIPW(8)

NAME

       vipw, vigr - edit the password, group, shadow-password or shadow-group file

SYNOPSIS

       vipw [options]

       vigr [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The vipw and vigr commands edits the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group, respectively. With the -s flag, they will edit the shadow versions
       of those files, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively. The programs will set the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption. When
       looking for an editor, the programs will first try the environment variable $VISUAL, then the environment variable $EDITOR, and finally the
       default editor, vi(1).

OPTIONS

       The options which apply to the vipw and vigr commands are:

       -g, --group
	   Edit group database.

       -h, --help
	   Display help message and exit.

       -p, --passwd
	   Edit passwd database.

       -q, --quiet
	   Quiet mode.

       -s, --shadow
	   Edit shadow or gshadow database.

ENVIRONMENT

       VISUAL
	   Editor to be used.

       EDITOR
	   Editor to be used if VISUAL is not set.

FILES

       /etc/group
	   Group account information.

       /etc/gshadow
	   Secure group account information.

       /etc/passwd
	   User account information.

       /etc/shadow
	   Secure user account information.

SEE ALSO

       vi(1), group(5), gshadow(5) , passwd(5), , shadow(5).

System Management Commands					    06/24/2011								   VIPW(8)
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