Bug 903861

Summary:	app-shells/bash: add some $HISTCONTROL setting for interactive shells by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Bricart <christian>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christian Bricart 2023-04-05 08:59:47 UTC

suggestion:
It would be really nice to have some HISTCONTROL setting system-wide by default.

i.e. I really miss at least a HISTCONTROL=ignorespace to be set (system-wide).

rationale: 
at least I made it a habbit to always prefix commands like »reboot«, »poweroff«, … (ymmv) with a space, to have them not end up in the history and unintentionally call them again by sticky fingers

of course, everyone is able to set that in one's own ~/.bashrc or even drop some file in /etc/bash/bashrc.d/ by their system provisioning solution, but that might turn out to be very cumbersome to most users.

however, I think this would be a really nice addition to system default's /etc/bash/bashrc (already being delivered by app-shells/bash from its $FILESDIR) wrt default user experience.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Yuri 2023-09-01 19:48:29 UTC

Having at least the 'ignorespace' set would be great since space is customary used for prefixing sensitive commands (e.g. passwords as a part of a command).