Another idea

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Ben Sandler wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Albert Crosby wrote:
> 
> > > At 05:15 PM 8/6/98 +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > >On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 08:55:36AM +0000, Albert Crosby wrote:
> > > >> Or, can we specify the password as a command line option to 
> > > >> VNCViewer?
> > > >
> > > >This would reveal the password to every user (at least on UNIX).
> > > >
> > >  And save password would make access available w/o even knowing the
> > > password.  So I assume either option would only be for use in a secure or
> > > trusted environmen.
> 
> Not necessarily.  MySQL takes a password on the command line, and when
> using ps, it shows up as:
> mysql -uusername -pxxxxxxxx database
> Not sure how it's done, but the same could be done here.

Perhaps the mysql program writes the 'x's in over argv[2] itself?

James "Wez" Weatherall
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