GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 600913
showing previous contents in vte based terminals
Last modified: 2009-11-08 02:20:50 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.
Sorry about that. Will fix it soon. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 591648 ***