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From: Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Commands with passwords as options
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:15:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=vmDkSaef2r-gaMK=6en=EYyCsWbVppRsPwF5r@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Some commands take passwords as option values, which is not very secure... I
was wondering if there is some way to handle that, for example through a
custom completer. Ideally, I here is how it should behave:
 - When reaching an option which expected value is a password, prompt for it
and read it from stdin
 - Do not display it in the buffer (just replace it with "XXXX" for example)
 - When accepting the buffer, replace the displayed buffer with the real one
 - Save the displayed buffer in the history rather than the real one

Does anyone have an idea on how to achieve this ?

Regards,
Julien

             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01 21:15 Julien Nicoulaud [this message]
2011-02-01 21:28 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-02-01 21:59   ` Julien Nicoulaud
2011-02-01 22:40     ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2011-02-01 22:57       ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-02-02  4:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-02-02 21:27   ` Julien Nicoulaud
2011-02-03  2:49     ` Bart Schaefer
2011-02-14 20:16 ` PJ Weisberg

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