Re: bash_history

[Michael Gale <michael.gale () bluesuperman com>]

Hello,

	You could change the permissions on the "export" command so only root 
can run it.

Michael.


Alejandro Flores wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I was googling about a way to protect the bash_history file from user
> removal or UNSET the HISTFILE variable and all I found was papers about
> disabling this file for security reasons. Weird! Why it's recommended to
> disable this file, when it contains the history of typed commands from
> all users? Ok, ok, you can tell me that users may have typed passwords
> in a bash session to gain access to a mysql database for example. 
> But, if you need to do some forensics in your compromised server, this
> file is the first place to know what the 'malicious dude' did to gain
> root privileges, the server where he downloaded his craps, etc...
> I started 'chown'ing the .bash_profile and .bashrc files to root, and
> removed the 'wx' from group and others. The user has only read
> permission.
> But I can't prevent him from changing the HISTFILE variable. Like:
> export HISTFILE=/dev/null
> With this command, all my steps from now aren't recorded.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Alejandro Flores
>
>
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