On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:30:37PM +0100, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Victor Porton <porton@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.