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

2012/9/10 James K. Lowden <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>

If I remember just using empty username and password will do so just
replacing strtok with strsep should work. The only problem is that
strsep are not portable but I found this link
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09941.html with
LGPL implementation.

Just add to replacements and use it!

Frediano