Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:47:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loss of fetch(1) functionality with libfetch Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008031546120.50478-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpog3asi0m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 3 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> writes:
> > Whilst the environment is somewhat safer than the command line, I'd
> > still prefer not to have passwords embedded in environment variables.
>
> Since ps(1) no longer allows users to view other users' processes'
> environment, I don't think it's a very big issue anymore.
This behavious is configurable - we shouldn't start relying on it at the
application level.
Kris
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