How to mail the name of the user that logged off?

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Tue Sep 25 21:41:33 UTC 2007


On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:29:43 -0500
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:

> Tony Nelson wrote:
> > At 2:25 AM -0600 9/25/07, Frank Cox wrote:
> >> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:19:51 -0700
> >> Brian Mury <brianmury at alumni.uvic.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >>> That would work, so long as the user doesn't modify ~/.bash_logout.
> >> chown root.root .bash_logout
> >> chmod 444 .bash_logout
> >> cp .bash_logout /etc/skel
> >>
> >> You're off to the races.
> > 
> > The user can just rm .bash_logout and make a new one.  Try it.

After doing some thinking and research here, what about using chattr to set the
i attribute?

man chattr tells me:

QUOTE
A file with the ‘i’ attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be  deleted
or  renamed,  no  link  can  be created to this file and no data can be
written to the file.  Only the superuser or a  process  possessing  the
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute.
END OF QUOTE


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