Re: Proposed patch to datacopy to allow passwords to be read from stdin
"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:45:16 +0100 Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> wrote: > > A local file is subject to the same inspection as the process's > > environment. It is thus no better or worse than my solution. > > At least Linux and HP-UX does not require such things to get access to > command line. Environment perhaps required it but ps returns the > expanded command line I see. Yes, that makes sense. The only command line ps(1) could show would be the one passed to the kernel after the shell finished processing any metacharacters. > I vote for getopt too! :-) > However I think that all tools support reading from standard input too > so the patch would only align datacopy to other tools. OK. I withdraw my objection. Let's apply it. I continue to hope someone will add Kerberos to datacopy, too. --jkl