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Re: couldn't match host name or address



If you do not put the \q before the password, it might be exposed with a
ps command.


On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:

> Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs,
> is root.
> 
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > > > password      \qpassword\q
> > > ""           \qpassword\q
> >
> > Incidentally, you don't want the second \q; it will turn echo to the log
> > back on, and the password WILL then go into the log.
> >
> > hamish
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> 
> 
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> 
> Aaron Walker
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> 
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