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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Who's in my Directory ?
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.172822.13641@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 22 Nov 90 17:28:22 GMT
References: <1990Nov21.004657.10564@mcs.kent.edu> <1990Nov21.013355.16798@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <8314@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <8314@star.cs.vu.nl> gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) writes:
>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.

Or don't have . in your $PATH at all. Get used to typing ./<command> if
you're that concerned. Its not that hard.

Dylan.
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