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On 2005.08.26 11:23:32 +0000, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
| On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:53:12AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
| > Using a password as a command-line option will expose that password
| > unless you further secure 'ps(1)', 'top(1)', probably parts of swap, and
| > other commands that can view the process tree.  (there are some threads
| > about doing this, but I'm not sure what ever happened with them.)
|=20
| This is one of them:=20
|=20
| http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-security/2004/06/26/0000.html
|=20
| I don't think it ever got committed though, which is a pity.  I'll
| re-request it on tech-kern@. =20

My patch is incomplete. There was a whole discussion about it. (see the who=
le
thread).

		-- Rui Paulo

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