From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Commands with passwords as options
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:28:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik-C+PD67k2FTySFCfpcZe4yTfDTWwRWp9DaB5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=vmDkSaef2r-gaMK=6en=EYyCsWbVppRsPwF5r@mail.gmail.com>
On 1 February 2011 22:15, Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?
That doesn't actually achieve anything, the password is still visible
in /proc/<pid>/cmdline.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-01 21:15 Julien Nicoulaud
2011-02-01 21:28 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
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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