Is the pre-filled history a feature?

[aleph-beth]

Hello everyone,

I just installed Exegol on a freshly set up machine (Debian 12). After installing Docker and launching Exegol, I was surprised to find that the container already had a Bash history containing over 250 commands. These commands appear to be typical of penetration testing activities.​

I expected a clean Docker image to have no command history.
This raises several questions:​

• Is this normal behavior for Exegol?
• Is the history intentionally pre-populated to serve as a reference or guide?

Thank you in advance for your insights.

[Dramelac]

Hello,

This is a normal Exegol feature. You can use CTRL+R with keyword search to find a command with the most common syntax, parameters and variables. This feature is useful for speeding up commitments by searching for the desired commands.
There's also a new custom exegol tool exegol-history or exh that lets you create a local database of targets, domains and credentials. The saved assets can then be applied to your current shell to populate the environment variables used in the history template commands.

We recently published a post/video about it (while it was still in development, exegol-history parameters have since changed):
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7305633715898978304

Here is the documentation of the feature:
https://exegol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/tips-and-tricks.html#dynamic-history-commands

If you also use a specific command on a regular basis, you can add your own template to the history automatically via my-resources:
https://exegol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/exegol-image/my-resources.html#zsh-aliases-zshrc-history

Enjoy your Exegol experience !

[aleph-beth]

Thank you for answering my question.