In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
: What happened to the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable ? As
: far as I can tell it is no longer supported and as a result sysinstall
: is broken. It uses Active FTP even if you select Passive FTP on
: the menu :-(
I've also noticed
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:26:01PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 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
Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What happened to the FTP_PASSIVE_MODE environment variable ? As
> far as I can tell it is no longer supported and as a result sysinstall
> is broken. It uses Active FTP even if you select Passive FTP on
> the menu :-(
Sysinstall does not use libfe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
>Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On 3 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>> > Since ps(1) no longer allows users to view other users' processes'
>> > environment, I don't think it's a very big issue anymore.
>> This behavio
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 3 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Since ps(1) no longer allows users to view other users' processes'
> > environment, I don't think it's a very big issue anymore.
> This behavious is configurable - we shouldn't start relying on it at the
> ap
On 3 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 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' proce
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 issu
I don't recall seeing this mentioned: In order to access the Internet,
I need to use proxy authorization. With the old fetch(1) I could use
an environment variable like "HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=basic:*:" and
it would prompt for a password.
The new libfetch-based fetch(1) ignores the HTTP_PROXY_AUTH var
