From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 3 15:47:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id ADAF137B68F; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBA92E8194; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:47:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Peter Jeremy , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loss of fetch(1) functionality with libfetch In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Peter Jeremy 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 -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message