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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!sunic!uts!dmicvx2!ls From: ls@dmi.min.dk (Lennart Sorth) Subject: Re: How to login unoticed... Message-ID: <CH9ytK.6ME@dmi.min.dk> Organization: DMI, Danish Meteorological Institute References: <2d8v00$cs3@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 22:36:56 GMT Lines: 24 sharifi@emunix.emich.edu (Surfer Al) writes: >Short of getting another anonymous account, is there a way where I can log in >and have myself suppressed from the 'who' and 'w' commands? I'm not trying >to eliminate myself from login records, just these commands. I don't care >about the 'finger' command without arguements, since I think results of >'who' are piped into it. Systemwide in /etc/rc<younameit> : alias w '/usr/ucb/w | grep -v ^sharif' alias who '/bin/who | grep -v ^sharif' until the studentd use /bin/who ;-) - THEN you need a trojan horse :-) or logout. ;-) -- | Lennart Sorth , D.M.I / | | Lyngbyvej 100 / You can do anything with perl... | | Tlf: 39 15 75 00, x546 / except read it ! | | e-mail: ls@dmi.min.dk / -many | `-------------------------------------------------------------------'