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ksaua on Aug 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail ov...

> surely bash doesn't cache passwords

It does if you're careless enough to type them out in clear text, e.g. when connecting to a mysql database:

    mysql -h host -u user -pMyPassword database

ordinary on Aug 5, 2013 [–]

Useful tip: with

  HISTCONTROL=ignorespace

in your .bashrc, if you start a line with a space, it won't be entered into your history.

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