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>The thing that ultimately flagged him was that he kept trying to clear his .history file. I'll assume you mean .bash_history This discussion has been had here
by fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
>The thing that ultimately flagged him was that he kept trying to clear his .history file.
I'll assume you mean .bash_history This discussion has been had here before. There are plenty of good non-sketchy reasons to delete it, and at some places it is mandatory.
- merlincorey 11y agoHe said ".history" because he probably meant it. There are many shells aside from bash. My systems don't even have bash installed.
- arbitrage314 11y agoYeah, it was the .bash_history file. My bad. He also encrypted the files, uploaded them to his remote computer, and then deleted the programs used to encrypt and upload them.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoOh boy, this thread again. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9044805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9044805 user@somemachine.gs.com:~/ >svn export --username Aleynikov --password Hunter2 \ --non-interactive svn://subversion.ZOMG.think.of.the.children.com/plundered/exportFile user@somemachine.gs.com:~/ >rm .bash_history It's also not unheard of to encrypt files for transit, and for storage on untrusted remote machines. I'm sure someone else around here could show you a few dozen ways to pipe that through gpg, a few of which might also require a password to be used in the command, necessitating the deletion of .bash_history You may criticize him for using encryption but what would you have him use, plaintext and ftp?