Yes but what if you (or someone else sharing the root account) got it into history by accident?
(apologies for top posting, limitations of client) On 2/9/09, Owen Townend <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/2/9 Amos Shapira <[email protected]>: > [snip] >> >> And one last thing, related to security - if you type a sensitive >> string on the command line and get it into your history, use "history >> -d" to delete this line. >> > > There is an easier way around this. Most shells, bash included will > exclude a line from the history if you begin it with a space. > > cheers, > Owen. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
