Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Whilst the environment is somewhat safer than the command line, I'd
> still prefer not to have passwords embedded in environment variables.
Since ps(1) no longer allows users to view other users' processes'
environment, I don't think it's a very big issue anymore.
> Has this feature been deliberately left out, or is it just one of the
> bits that you haven't gotten around to implementing yet? Would you
> be interested in patches to implement it?
Sure. The only clean way of doing this (that I can think of) would be
to add an interface to libfetch for registering password-prompting
callbacks.
> On a related note, I noticed the following bug - though it has no
> effect on the operation of libfetch in its current form.
Correct, thanks.
DES
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