Re: sending password in the command line

[David Flatz <david@upcs.at>]

Pedro Zorzenon Neto said:
> Thanks for you sugestion David,
> 
>   As it is a Perl script that will call the program, I'll do in the Perl
>   code something like this:
> 
>   $tmp=`umask 177; tempfile`;
>   fopen (PASS,">$tmp");
>   print PASS $password;
>   fclose PASS;
>   `cat $tmp | myprogram enable $user $ip; rm -f $tmp`;
> 
>   will this be safe now?

why don't you just do

#!/usr/bin/perl
print('enter pass: ');
$tmp = <>;
system('myprogram enable $user $tmp $ip');

david flatz