Re: Shell Script on Debian
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:42:53AM +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote:
> (Not quite sure how this relates to arm.)
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008, ApOgEE wrote:
> > set password [lindex \$argv 1]
>
> The command line might be visible by all users of the system, unless
> you use some locked down kernel, so I wouldn't pass the password on the
> command line.
The environment could be viewed too. A pipe should be OK I think.
Tricky to do in bash, but something like perl should able to do it,
which is at least how the debian installer used to manage to set
passwords in base-config in the past.
--
Len Sorensen
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