On 2012-04-19, at 17:54, Ivan Kanakarakis wrote: > I guess some possible workarounds would be > - reading the passwd from an environmental var (is that any safer?) > - reading the passwd from a file (overkill ?) > - ? > > what do you people think ? > should this be 'fixed' in ii ?
$ ii & $ cat ~/irc/freenode_login_script > ~/irc/irc.freenode.net/in No need for the program to implement password support at all really. Perhaps ii would suck less if this was just removed? >> Mind, the password is sent in the clear, so anyone on the same network >> segment, or otherwise in the way, can read it anyhow. > > true, does the ssl patch provide any encryption for that ? Yes. -Truls