GPO support for HistorySaveStyle & set default HistorySaveStyle to SaveNothing

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
cli, security

Research direction

Start by tracing how HistorySaveStyle is configured and how PowerShell group policy templates are handled in PSReadLine. Define the policy override and the default SaveNothing behavior, then verify that history is not written unless saving is deliberately enabled and that the policy takes precedence.

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Issue-Enhancement Not-Planned

Hi,

it would be great to have group policy support for HistorySaveStyle.
Saving the History to file is an extremly dangerous feature.

Regularly you will find credentials (passwords or authentication tokens) in the history file.

It would be great to have a group policy template to override HistorySaveStyle.

And please, please change the default HistorySaveStyle to SaveNothing
It should be a deliberate decision to enable saving.

greetings
Carsten

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