On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 15:37 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:30:37PM +0100, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Victor Porton <por...@narod.ru> > > wrote: > > > It is important for security: > > > > > > It should be easy to remove lines with passwords and potentially > > > harmful > > > commands (like sudo with rm). > > > > never put your passwords in plain text in commands, thats important > > for security. If, for some reasons, you have to type sensitive data > > inline, take any precautions available to not to put the command in > > the history. > > Such measures may include prefixing the command with a space when you > enter it, if you have ignorespace or ignoreboth in the HISTCONTROL > variable. I know. But I sometimes forget to put a space. Also some server accounts may be not configured for ignorespace.
-- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
