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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Need a "watching" program
Message-ID: <11680@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 11 May 89 11:04:26 GMT
References: <8923@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <8923@csli.Stanford.EDU> rustcat@csli.stanford.edu (Vallury Prabhakar) writes:
> I was wondering if there is any way of keeping track of any/every body who
> looks around in my home directory?  'twould be nice if this program could
> create and append to a logfile, each time some user chdir-ed to my $HOME.

This isn't possible under most versions of Unix. It *might* be possible
under a secure Unix with audit trails, but I'm not too familiar with secure
Unixes.

An easy solution is to "cd; chmod 700 .". That will insure that no one can
go into your home directory.

Sean
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