who last edited this file???

[Birbone]

Is there a way to tell who last edited a common file.

I know how to look through /home/user/.sh_history to find the users who have accessed the file but it does tell me who did it last.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give. -Bobby
bwgunn@icqmail.com

 

[crowe]

I can not think of a "standard" tool/utility that keeps track of such information, but you might be able to look at the file permissions, to see who could not have edited it. Then look at the last modification time for the file (man ls) and cross reference that with the last command to see when users were logged in. Then you would have (hopefully) a smaller list than every user onthe system, and you could search out the .sh_history files to see who it could be.

crowe