From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Aug 17 18:46:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA10855 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 18:46:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10842 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 18:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA18418; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:53:07 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:53:06 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Tim Tsai cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing password via web ? In-Reply-To: <19970817202416.14850@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Tim Tsai wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 10:27:48AM +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > You can't use command line args to passwd, because they are visible using > > ps(1), whereas environment vars are not visible to other processes. > > Yes it is. Try ps -ae. Yikes. You are right. OK, back to the drawing board. Thanks. Danny