From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 4 0: 7:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82D137B890; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02144; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:07:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Kris Kennaway , Peter Jeremy , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loss of fetch(1) functionality with libfetch In-reply-to: Your message of "04 Aug 2000 09:01:26 +0200." Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:07:31 +0200 Message-ID: <2142.965372851@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Kris Kennaway writes: >> On 3 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> > 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. > >I'm not relying on it - fetch(1) has always had the ability to specify >passwords in environment variables. I'm just saying it's less of a >problem than it was before. > >On a related note, I just suddenly remembered about .netrc. Libfetch >ought to be able to read FTP logins and passwords from the user's >.netrc. I also wonder if it might be meaningful to use .netrc for HTTP >servers as well... What happened to the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable ? As far as I can tell it is no longer supported and as a result sysinstall is broken. It uses Active FTP even if you select Passive FTP on the menu :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message