Re: non-interactive user authentication

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:16:40PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
> Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net> writes:
>
> > I don't see the problem with either of:
> > 1) Never prompt at all
>
> Allowing people to specify --username/--password is OK, but requiring
> them to do it is not acceptable since passing such information via the
> command line can be a security risk.
>
Right, so once their script fails with the empty uname/password, they can set
it up to use a cached one.

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