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Date:      Fri, 04 May 2001 14:54:46 -0700
From:      "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
To:        khera@kcilink.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: FreeBSD Security tip
Message-ID:  <F262i5rWqBsJFHOdayx0000560f@hotmail.com>

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>CB> To prevent a potential snoop from looking at command logs or scrolling 
>CB> up IF at the local terminal (which is a security problem in and of CB> 
>itself) I set all users logoff scripts to delete their command log and CB> 
>clear the screen.
>
>Why not just set their shells *not* to keep the command log in the first 
>place?

I would miss my scrollback buffer. ;-) It saves me quite a bit of time and I 
use is more frequently than probably any other non-critical feature of the 
command shell. On systems in which security is absolutely the most important 
issue, like DoD computers that store classified information, I would 
probably do that though.
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