Re: Simple Question: logout

["J.C. Roberts" <unknown@abac.com>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:08:57 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, J.C. Roberts wrote:
>
>> This exceedingly simple feat of programming is something I could
>> probably accomplish on my own, if anyone thinks it's really a
>> desirable feature. ;)
>
>Uhm, how about putting the "clear" command in your .logout file (for csh,
>at least).
>
>---
>Aaron Campbell (aaron@monkey.org || aaron@openbsd.org)
>http://www.monkey.org/~aaron
>

Using "clear" would work and as "bluehaze" pointed out on the list we
can also just set gettytab to clear the screen on logout/exit:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#7.3

My real question is if the goal is "secure by default" why is clearing
the screen _not_ the default action?

Is there a idiosyncracy with one of the supported terminal types or
getty that prevents clearing the screen on all systems? -This is the
only reasonable guess I can come up with why default action is set the
way it is. If there is no reason why it can't be done and people think
it should be done, then I'm stoked because I just found a way to help
out (to a tiny degree) with the development. :)

Thanks,
J.C. Roberts