Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:20:37 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How to disable command prompt history? Message-ID: <20070604142037.0884d59f@localhost> In-Reply-To: <46637B07.6050705@earlham.edu> References: <2cd0a0da0706020638g48b7ac7fn946c6e3caddc0663@mail.gmail.com> <466199E5.3040005@vindaloo.com> <e14997e00706021056h2c94e1c6je3e57acc33841066@mail.gmail.com> <4661B6E0.803@earlham.edu> <2cd0a0da0706030142l1fd30d74yc443e132337daf37@mail.gmail.com> <46637B07.6050705@earlham.edu>
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On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:37:59 -0400
Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu> wrote:
> Also, why are you worried about them seeing what commands you've been
> running? My first thought is that at the point a malicious someone has
> broken into your system, you have (much) bigger things to worry about.
good point. I do have this done in my laptop, only because I can :D (and a bit harder for someone to know what u're supposed to do to mount the encrypted drives.... big deal :D )
anyway, I just linked ~/.bash_history to /dev/null - history works within the current shell, but not once I've exited. Anyway, having multiple shells writing to the same history file is always problematic - it never keeps the one you really need :-S
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