From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 4 11:50:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D38537BBA4 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA24100; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:50:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:50:18 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loss of fetch(1) functionality with libfetch Message-ID: <20000804115018.B23995@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00Aug3.142942est.115260@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:26:01PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:26:01PM +0200, 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. POLA says you should not have changed what fetch(1) expects from the environmental var. > > Has this feature been deliberately left out, or is it just one of the > > bits that you haven't gotten around to implementing yet? Would you > > be interested in patches to implement it? > > Sure. The only clean way of doing this (that I can think of) would be > to add an interface to libfetch for registering password-prompting > callbacks. Then it should have been added -- especially before being MFC'ed. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message