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From: gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Who's in my Directory ?
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Date: 21 Nov 90 13:13:28 GMT
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jxf@castor.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
>It isn't possible in any conventional way that I know of, however, a
>friend of mine once create an 'ls' binary that he placed in his home
>directory which logged a message to some predetermined log file, and
>then exec'd /bin/ls with the original arguments.

>Doesn't work if they have /bin in their path before '.', though, but
>it still caught a lot of people snooping.

I know a student around here with an "ls" shellscript in their home directory,
which *copied your mailbox* into a subdirectory, so he could read it.
The moral of this story: have ls aliased to /bin/ls or have /bin before . in
your $PATH.

-					Gerben.
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