Security issue in Terminal

[Brian Waters]

Whether or not it's a security issue generally is definitely
debatable. For certain users, though, it's definitely an issue and I
hope they would switch to xterm or something similar for the time
being.

A nice way that VTE could handle this would be to have a configure
option for that behavior, which could be added to our terminal and
others. Whether or not that makes sense given the way scrollback is
implemented, I don't know. We'll see!

- BW

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> wrote:
> * David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> [2012-03-07 17:29]:
>> Has there already been a bug report filed for this security issue in
>> Terminal?
>>
>> http://www.climagic.org/bugreports/libvte-scrollback-written-to-disk.html
>
> The link is on the page you referenced
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8183
>
> Apart from that these files are managed by vte and not Terminal
> itself and it is debatable whether this actually is a security
> issue at all.
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
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