Re: Proposed patch to datacopy to allow passwords to be read from stdin

Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Il giorno 24/ago/2012, alle ore 19:06, "James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> ha scritto:

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:16:24 +0000 (UTC)
> Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> called "getpass".  Now the command:
>>> 
>>>  datacopy -S$S/$U/$(getpass $S)/$D/$T ...
>>> 
>>> does the job.
>> 
>> This still shows in the command line, though.
> 
> No, what shows on the command line is "$(getpass $S)".  That's what you
> type in; that's what shows in ps(1).  That's what will be in any log of
> the script.  
> 
> We seem to be talking past each other.  What are you referring to?  
> 

Hi,
  James, the shell expand the command so in ps you see the password. Perhaps environment is more safe and hard to read but I think pipe or external file are better.

Frediano
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