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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.org
Sat Oct 6 11:06:01 UTC 2018


On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 12:52:07PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> It should probably be opt-in because creating ever-growing files
> by default is a bit unfriendly to embedded platforms. 

you can just limit the size of those files and keep the last $N commands.
Every shell manages quite fine with their history on that regard...

> Also, some commands accept crypto secrets in parameters, and people will not
> expect those to be saved by default under $HOME where any program
> could easily read them.

As indicated $HOME is $HOME of the daemon, not the user.  Anyone who has
those privileges can just as well access the HLR database directly...

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