Yesterday I was tired and working on a friend serveur. The ssh prompt was different and I entered the password from a account while the remote port has hang up on me. So effectively typing “password” straight on my shell.
His password is in my history now. I removed it but that type of thing happen all the time. (
Not that much in a professional settings, password tends to fade away )
While ignoring commands preceded by a space character is absolutely one of my very favorite shell features, it usually isn't enabled by default (YMMV).
HISTCONTROL=ignorespace # bash
setopt hist_ignore_space # zsh
These go into ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc, respectively. zsh is really smart about this and always enables you to retrieve the immediate previous line with arrow-up, no matter whether it's got preceding whitespace or not.
+1 to prefixing with a space. hiSHtory supports this out of the box so that anything prefixed with a space isn't recorded (even if your shell doesn't do that by default!). And if you do ever mess up, `hishtory redact` can be used to delete history entries.
Yesterday I was tired and working on a friend serveur. The ssh prompt was different and I entered the password from a account while the remote port has hang up on me. So effectively typing “password” straight on my shell.
His password is in my history now. I removed it but that type of thing happen all the time. ( Not that much in a professional settings, password tends to fade away )