-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Howarth wrote: > Oliver Leitner wrote: > >> Ankush Grover wrote: >> >>> Please tell me how to delete the user's bash history file after he or >>> she logs out. >>> I tried this /etc/skel/bash_logout >>> >>> rm -f $HOME/bash_history >>> >>> But it is not working. >>> >>> Can anyone tell me how to do this .I want to do it for every user. >> >> >> >> Dear Ankush >> >> the easiest way would be a cronjob, that does a history -c every 5 >> minutes or so. >> >> on a wider approach you might wanna try to make your own daemon, that >> does the job. >> >> i hope that helps you further > > > Wouldn't a better method be to prevent the creation of the history file > in the first place? > > One way to do this might be: > > # echo "unset HISTFILE" > /etc/profile.d/nohistfile.sh > # chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/nohistfile.sh > > I haven't tried this but it *should* work. > > Paul. > hello paul indeed, if he doesnt need the history file at all, that would be the best way. ive seen that commands being used with some backdoors btw...;) Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCv9y0xHPquN24yVsRAhPWAKC4fEp75fxlakSM268txCcjJC9ZOACgyQok PNFRJboUpnGnGRIACzSjDJo= =Dub+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
