stop users from running 'history -c' in Linux

xander · September 17, 2008, 7:32am

Hi All,
My question is how can i stop my users on system from deleting their history.
How can i stop the users from running 'history -c'.

I have searched thoroughly on the forum but didn't find any satisfactory solution to the problem.
kindly help if you any suggestions

Thanx in advance

frank_rizzo · September 17, 2008, 7:58am

you can't.

if you need an audit trail that cannot be tampered with then you should enable auditing.

xander · September 17, 2008, 8:03am

how??

DukeNuke2 · September 17, 2008, 8:07am

tried google? first hit for: "linux auditing"