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Bug 600913 - showing previous contents in vte based terminals
showing previous contents in vte based terminals
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 591648
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-06 01:36 UTC by xfcetemp
Modified: 2009-11-08 02:20 UTC
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Description xfcetemp 2009-11-06 01:36:28 UTC 
When I use programs like less in vte based terminals, I will see the contents of the previous file I've looked at.  I've had this display unencrypted passwords in plain sight.

Using terminals like xterm etc. don't do this.  I first noticed this in xfce4 terminal (Terminal 0.4.2 (Xfce 4.6.1)) on Arch Linux, and double checked with sakura and gnome-terminal.
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2009-11-08 02:20:50 UTC 
Sorry about that.  Will fix it soon.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 591648 ***