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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2007 23:14:45 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount_smbfs and non-interactively passing a password to it
Message-ID:  <20070521041445.GB78897@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070520192511.7ea7188a@vixen42>
References:  <20070519222527.680ba5c2@vixen42> <sa6hcq7ii1d.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20070520123607.4aba7f35@vixen42> <sa6ejlbig8d.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20070520131042.2ce78ae0@vixen42> <sa6d50vied6.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20070520134645.3d77b75c@vixen42> <sa6bqgficcp.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20070520192511.7ea7188a@vixen42>

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On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:25:11PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Zane C.B., and lo! it spake thus:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007 03:22:46 +0900
> Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, IIRC, some version of ssh-agent used unnamed socket or pipe
> > to limit its access to its descendants only.  I don't know if the
> > reason for the change of that enforcement was security-wise or
> > not.
> 
> Yeah, going to have to look at that and expand my C skills some
> more.

Note pw(8)'s '-h' option to pass the password over a given FD.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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