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Re:Bashhub – Bash History in the Cloud by nodesocket on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:16AM (#10695090)
Not saying I make of habit of this, but sometimes you have to pass sensitive things as arguments (passwords, api tokens, customer data, etc), it happens.

I think client side encryption by Bashhub would alleviate this security concern.

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Re:Bashhub – Bash History in the Cloud by dllthomas on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:24AM (#10695102)
That doesn't have to mean typing it at your command line. My approach is typically to set shell variables with read (if I need to type it) or xclip (if I need to paste).

Of course, client side encryption would be great in any case.

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Re:Bashhub – Bash History in the Cloud by voltagex_ on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:54AM (#10695178)
One of the AWS config utilities comes to mind - you have to paste in your AWS key if running interactively.
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Re:Bashhub – Bash History in the Cloud by nodesocket on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @02:01AM (#10695195)
Actually `aws configure` is interactive when it asks for input. Those values won't be stored in `history`.
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