Message-ID: <CAFnz2-83_zPeK99SUNuB-h1a_3DZiv_gwRB3-+nYsQVx4wDbjg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2015-05-27T08:17:44Z
From: Luca Cerone
Subject: Remove entry with sensitive information from history
In-Reply-To: <7A139850-417B-48C7-A487-7B6D8F6D64F2@comcast.net>
Hi David, thanks, but the function has to work from an R shell, I have
no graphical server in my remote machines.
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:45 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
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> On May 27, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Luca Cerone wrote:
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>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> in one of my packages I store encrypted password.
>>
>> If the user has to change the password in use she can run:
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>> update_password(old_password, new_password)
>>
>> The problem is that the commands ends up in the .Rhistory file.
>>
>> Is there any way I can avoid this? Any suggestion about it?
>>
>
> Write a small password verification program in Rcpp or tcl and then call it to handle the dialog. In the past Greg Snow has suggested: "The tkexamp function in the TeachingDemos package can help with creating tcltk dialog boxes. "
>
> --
>
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>