From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: view-lossage and passwords
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:19:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B894617.5000408@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <245949e5-e510-452d-a485-3da79f3b1ad5@k5g2000pra.googlegroups.com>
mandar.mitra wrote:
> At various times (e.g. when I am using a terminal) within emacs, I
> need to enter my password. This is, by default, stored in my typing
> history, and becomes visible with view-lossage. Is there some way to
> prevent passwords from being recorded in typing history, so that if I
> run view-lossage (usually accidentally), my password won't show up on
> screen?
>
> I've looked around on the web a bit, but didn't find anything that
> addresses this. Thanks for any tips,
> Mandar.
>
Hi,
that's a bug and security risk IMO. It should never happen.
Please report it: M-x report-emacs-bug
Thanks
Andreas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-27 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-27 8:41 view-lossage and passwords mandar.mitra
2010-02-27 13:44 ` Fwd: " Lennart Borgman
2010-02-27 16:19 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2010-02-28 19:33 ` Geralt
2010-03-01 9:35 ` Andreas Röhler
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