How do I view the keyboard buffer?

Question

I would like to be able to find some passwords I forgot to wright down. I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

update I realize I cant find passwords on the buffer but i would like to know how to read the keyboard buffer through the terminal.

How do you figure to manage this? If would be a blatant security flaw if you could find passwords like this. Passwords are tested against what you type in as a password and will never show up in a buffer (unless the actual password is used in a command in plain text like mysql's --password ;)). Btw. all passwords can be reset if you have a sudo user account and the sudo password can be reset from grub and/or a live cd if need be. You might be better off asking how to reset a particular password.
Are you referring to passwords remembered by your web browser, by any chance?

Jo Liss · Answer 1 · 2012-05-08 09:33:28Z

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I'll just put what @mikewhatever said in an answer:

Keys that you pressed in the past are not stored anywhere.

answered May 8 '12 at 9:33

Jo Liss
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