Need a "watching" program
Sean Casey
sean at ms.uky.edu
Thu May 11 21:04:26 AEST 1989
In article <8923 at csli.Stanford.EDU> rustcat at 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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