On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 05:24:16PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> Delete permission comes from the directory, not the file. No amount of
> chmod'ing the file will affect it.
Hmm, so If I took out write permission for the directory, the user wouldn't
be able to delete his .bash_history, correct? (or any file inside it for
that matter)
> Under FreeBSD, you can run "chflags sappnd,sunlnk .bash_history" to
> make the file undeletable, append-only. Under other Unixes, the user
> can simply do a "cp /dev/null ~/.bash_history && kill -9 $$" to log out
> with no history file.
Thanks, the chflags method worked for me...
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