In article <3B95E76D.A2FDD99F at sanger.ac.uk>,
Ed Griffiths <edgrif at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>>Your patch is in the code.
Coo, fame at last. :-)
>An alternative would be for the saceclient to accept the userid and hashed
>userid/passwd as command line arguments, this way only encrypted stuff would
>appear on the command line. I already supply a utility to do the hashing and I
>could make this more friendly as required. That way scripts that use saceclient
>via a pipe could just use my utility to create the hash and bobs your uncle.
While that stops someone knowing the unhashed password, they still can
use ps to get a command line which will gain them access, so it doesn't
gain much. Or am I missing something?
Tim.
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