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kox

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Registered: 2015-05-01

Posts: 149

How do I clear all login history

I have accidentally typed in my password as the login and made a bad login attempt. Now my password must be visible somewhere (I know it's partially visible with lastb command). How would I go about securely erasing all instances of this data from the filesystem?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: How do I clear all login history

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Last edited by seth (2021-04-23 07:51:38)

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