On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:25:19PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> Eric G Miller <egm2@jps.net> writes:
> EGM> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:57:18AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> But for example,what if I want to write a shell script which will login
> >> to the remote server automatically?e.g..for some cgi...etc...
> EGM> 
> EGM> Couldn't you put the password in a variable? Would the real value show
> EGM> up, or just the variable name?
> EGM> 
> EGM> #! /bin/sh
> EGM> MY_PASS=Xhef#&8wertyqP[,
> EGM> 
> EGM> exec mysql [args] $MY_PASS
> 
> The real password would show up.
...and:  /proc/$PID/environ, readable by user and root.

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