From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: view-lossage and passwords Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:19:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4B894617.5000408@easy-emacs.de> References: <245949e5-e510-452d-a485-3da79f3b1ad5@k5g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267287477 32324 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2010 16:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:17:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 17:17:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlPMW-0006ne-OR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:17:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56593 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlPMW-0008OC-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:17:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NlPM7-0008LT-Hi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45513 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlPM6-0008Kl-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlPM4-0008Ig-VI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:17:26 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:59478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlPM4-0008II-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (p54BEBAA2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.186.162]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MAihL-1NsKJk1IKJ-00C5zN; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:17:23 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) In-Reply-To: <245949e5-e510-452d-a485-3da79f3b1ad5@k5g2000pra.googlegroups.com> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+OkgvCPp/7MopYlMYNwXvjuMfQUw844ubNBdz Ai+FGq7dzrbCEydhTuEuIUOr93jWErNhYrl582FLVD6YvyEaq0 QQRWQK5jIM0WugMWr1ANg38S+yVy8mo8Xn6GRvPG6I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72212 Archived-At: 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 -- https://code.launchpad.net/~a-roehler/python-mode https://code.launchpad.net/s-x-emacs-werkstatt/