RE: bash_history to track users

["Thiago Lima " <thiagolima () webforce com br>]

> But not too different. The user must still have write access. 
> Otherwise, how would the shell write to it? If the shell can 
> write to it, so can the user. Anyway, what if the user has 
> more than one instance running? .bash_history only has the 
> history of one instance. Or tcsh? Or any other shell for that matter?

you could use a special partition that you only store those 'bash logs'
and set it to just allow appends. Files can't be deleted or edited.

man e2fs

regards
thiago.


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