I don't recall what we discussed in particular, but I ended up putting a test in .bash_profile or .bashrc to check if the SSH connection was coming from the ADDM server, and if so unset the HISTFILE variable. We only have the one ADDM server which does this, so it works adequately.

Ideally ADDM should have its own userid for this purpose, but I went with the stop-gap fix.

Kevin

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:36 AM Dean, Marisa (IT.PFMS) < Marisa.Dean@provident.co.uk> wrote:

Hi

Sorry for a random email many years later, I am hoping you take the time to reply.

I came across your post of BMC ADDM spamming bash history and wondered did you ever find a way to stop it doing this and discover in a neater method?

Kind Regards,

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