Debian bug report logs - #1549, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1549: bash should not have world-readable history
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From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: Debian bugs submission address <debian-bugs@pixar.com>

Package: bash
Version: 1.14.4-2

bash has a very annoying habit of creating a world-readable
.bash_history file, if you let it.

I have solved this problem by putting creating a mode 600 empty file
/etc/skel/.bash_history, so that the file already has the right
permissions when bash starts to use it.

There are other obvious solutions to the problem - I don't know which
is best, but something should be done.

Ian.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Bug#1549: Acknowledgement (was: bash should not have world-readable history)
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