Shell Programming and Scripting

Could you modify the commands themselves, so that they can't avoid running the originals? Or are they not shell scripts?

---------- Post updated at 01:37 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:34 PM ----------

They can just find another way around it. The fully qualified path will still bypass it. So will a relative path. You can't block them all without changing how the underlying program works, I think.

---------- Post updated at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:37 PM ----------

Another way to do it might be to prevent everyone from using it unless they run it through sudo as a specific user. You can configure sudo to only allow them to run it when they give very specific parameters. Be careful what user sudo allows them to run it as of course.

let me try it tomorrow.

thanks a lot to Corona, Scottn and Unix Forum

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