Re: sending password in the command line
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:16:16PM +0000, Merlin wrote:
> On Thursday 27 December 2001 16:46, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> >
> > Because that doesn't solve the original problem of the password being
> > visible on the command line. The environment and the stdin were two
> > suggested ways of passing the password.
> >
>
> Why is all that for ?
> Isn't you who's writing the program? Why don't you program just ask the
> password?
It will be used mostly non-interactive. The user can run it inside a cronjob
or a www/cgiscript.
I can also write a user-interface for the program which asks the password.
But the "low-level" interface will not be interactive.
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