Re: Hide command line arguments

2008-03-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Bernreuther wrote: > on a common Linux system, everyone can use e.g. > ps and will see running processes of all users including > the command line arguments. Yes. This is a long standing reason that programs that deal with secure data such as passwords should avoid putting passwords in the

Hide command line arguments

2008-03-01 Thread Martin Bernreuther
Hello, on a common Linux system, everyone can use e.g. ps and will see running processes of all users including the command line arguments. I'd like to hide the command line arguments e.g. for the cp command, which sometimes uses quite a long time to copy large files, to keep the path and file nam