[plug] putty for Red Hat Linux 7.3

[Craig Ringer]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 11:10, Bennett, Phillip wrote:
> My favorite being to redirect .bash_history to /dev/null so the admins can't
> see what I'm doing. :)

I prefer being the admin ;-)

That said, I think any admin monitoring users without informing them
they may be monitored should probably think some more about what they're
doing and the possible ethical and Privacy Act implications.

> Does anyone else do this?

I hope not without telling users.

>   Is there some way to stop it?

A few ideas:

.bash_profile:
set +o history
unset HISTFILE
history -c

"man bash"
(in particular, the HIST* environment variables like HISTIGNORE)

.bash_logout:
history -c



Craig Ringer