/etc/skel

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:54:17AM +0200, Guillermo Gutiérrez Herrera wrote:

> I'd like tell you an idea: why not make a
> default /etc/skel/.bash_aliases that contains:
> 
> alias exit='clear; logout 2> /dev/null';
> alias logout="exit";
> 
> Then, when sb type exit (or logout), the console flushes and nobody can
> read what he wrote.

If you want this functionality, the place to implement it would be in
getty(8).  For example, consider that your proposed implementation doesn't
work if the user uses a shell other than bash.

-- 
 - mdz