From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: "Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@benizi.com>
Cc: Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@gmail.com>,
zsh-users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Commands with passwords as options
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:57:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikx45V6mMZfoVMhYvrdo7785jwgCmDisaWOLv1H@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1102011726120.2792@hp>
On 1 February 2011 23:40, Benjamin R. Haskell <zsh@benizi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Julien Nicoulaud wrote:
>
>> OK, but at least it is hidden from the shell "UI". Take it as
>> "man-looking-over-your shoulder" protection :-) For example you show
>> something to someone, you do a backward history search and a command with a
>> clear text password you forgot to exclude from history pops out...
>
> In general, just avoid ever using such options. But, if you get lazy, two
> ways around it that I use:
>
> # method 1, use a var:
> $ read DBPASSWORD
> *password*here*
> $ <ctrl-l> to clear screen
You can use read -s here and the password will not be echoed to the
screen as you type it. For cat you can use "STTY=-echo cat"
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 22:57 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
2011-02-01 21:59 ` Julien Nicoulaud
2011-02-01 22:40 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2011-02-01 22:57 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
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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