Date: 03 Aug 2000 13:26:01 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loss of fetch(1) functionality with libfetch Message-ID: <xzpog3asi0m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Peter Jeremy's message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:28:44 %2B1000" References: <00Aug3.142942est.115260@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> 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. > 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. > On a related note, I noticed the following bug - though it has no > effect on the operation of libfetch in its current form. Correct, thanks. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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