Debian bug report logs - #1549 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1549: bash should not have world-readable history Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 00:33:06 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: bash X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 05 Oct 1995 00:33:06 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 05 Oct 1995 00:29:08 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t0e9A-0008ozC; Wed, 4 Oct 95 17:26 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08166 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 4 Oct 1995 17:26:26 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0t0dMY-000BzdC; Thu, 5 Oct 95 00:36 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 5 Oct 95 00:23 BST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 00:23 BST From: Ian Jackson To: Debian bugs submission address 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1549: Acknowledgement (was: bash should not have world-readable history) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1549" or "Re: Bug#1549" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov