Ok, I was trying to restrict a user from editing the .bash_history file so I did a chown and chgrp to root. There was a problem here though. The file wasn't being updated after this due to the permissions. Then I changed the owner back to the user and set privileges to just be able to write and not read. It still will not update the file. I am assuming that the user must have read write access to the file for it to be updated at every logon. So my question is, how do you keep a user from changing the .bash_history file?