From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 29 8:35:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B1A14C44 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost (billf@localhost) by jade.chc-chimes.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA25317; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:39:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:39:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "N.N.M" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A strange process In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Bill Fumerola writes: > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, N.N.M wrote: > > > login -p zzzzzzzz > > > > The password given at the command line, however login 'hides' that > > password in the process list so people snooping around don't catch it. > > No. 'man login'. Oh, well, that's what the mysql client does, I just made a guess. :> - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message