2010/1/19 Monkey Daemon <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I've just discovered a system on which one of our darling users has > decided adding a script to his .bash_logout file that removes > .bash_history on logout is a clever thing to do. > > Is there a way to take a copy of the .bash_history file before it is > deleted? This user obviously has something to hide as far as I'm > concerned, so I need to archive this file to present it as evidence.
You could trojan the history command so that when a clear is attempted it copies the current history first. I'd do this by moving the history binary to one side and adding a shell script wrapper that checks the UID and acts when needed. Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
