full-disclosure - Re: encrypt the bash history

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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:40:47 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: "Zerial." <fernando@...ial.org>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: encrypt the bash history

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:18:53 -0300, "Zerial." said:

> The "way" is not safe enough. root can login as me (su - user) and
> bash_history will be decrypted. I try to find any better way to crypt
> and make unreadable the bash_history file from any other users,
> including root.

Agreed. GPG makes the rather rash assumption that you use it on a
system where the computing resources can be at least somewhat
trusted (i.e. it assumes you're not on a system that somebody else
may have installed a keystroke logger or similar).

1a) It may be simpler/safer to totally disable the feature so you
don't leave behind a .bash_history.

1b) If you don't trust root with your .bash_history, why do you trust
root with every single keystroke you entered while doing the commands
that created that history? (Think about that for a bit...)

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