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Comment by kilroy123 | Hacker News Reader

Odd that your history is being cleared out, it's never happened to me.

I always keep my own history of every command I ever run. I've moved this from computer to computer. So I can look back years in the past and see what I've done.

  case "$TERM" in
    xterm*|rxvt*)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"; echo `date +"%b %e %Y %H:%M:%S"` $? \"`history 1|cut -c7-`\" in `pwd` >> ~/.audit'
        ;;
    *)
        ;;
    esac

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I could never do this. I type my ssh password as a bash command too often. My file would turn out to be a password history!

Use ssh keys

That you cannot read the private key of.

Do you mean on a yubi-key type thing, or do you mean password protected, or do you mean something else entirely?

Is your ssh password `ls`? That's not a great password.

I think he means he types it out accidentally, we've all been there. Bonus points for when you're doing it on a screenshare or projector.

Yikes. You use SSH passwords?

Ah never thought of that... I use ssh keys myself so never a concern. You could scrub the file of all entries where you are ssh'ing in?

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