On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 15:21:07 -0400 "Poison BL." <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Poison BL. <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So it was prompted by a perceived security issue, but I would > > happily sit down with any of the DPOs involved in that to hear just > > how that little bandaid fixes any of the real security issues > > involved ;) > > > > -- > > Joshua M. Murphy > > > > > Actually, now I recall what the actual issue is/was that prompted it. > While there's no reasonable security issue from the information left > over by the startup script output, the change was (if I recall from > reading about it back then) addressing the data left on screen after > a user session, which very much would fall under the scope of the > data protection officers mentioned above. When launched from init, as > agetty is, there's no sensible way to track whether it's being > launched the first time after boot, or relaunched after the end of a > previous session, hence the terminal clear by default. That's why I added this file (can't remember where I got the idea): cat ~/.bash_logout clear I suppose some equivalent mechanism could be added for every possible shell, which would be a headache for someone :)
