On 2010-08-05, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: >> On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote: >>> But why only the request for auth credentials? >> >> for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters >> the password > > Well yes, but what if you actually want to script it?
Scripting passwords is considered a huge security hole, so people who care about security try to prevent it by doing things like reading passwords from /dev/tty instead of stdin. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want my nose in at lights! gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list