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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
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Subject: Re: Who's in my Directory ?
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Date: 3 Dec 90 06:42:32 GMT
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dpavlich@math-cs.kent.edu (Dave Pavlich) writes:
>Is there a way on unix to find out if someone has 'cd''d into your directory?

If you wish to find out if someone is currently in your directory, under
many (most or all?) implementations of *nix you can do so, provided you're
root, or run an SUID program, and any of the files in question have not
disappeared in the meantime.

If, however, you wish to find out if someone has *ever* been in your
directory, the answer is:  no.

(Side note:  one of the features of NOS [which runs only on CDC Cybers, in
170-state] that I liked was that it kept a log of who accessed your files,
and when, and what mode.  [NOS also had ACL's.]  There are times when I'd
really like something like that...)

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