AW: The --password and clumsy users issue

Hi,

> [Long discussion snipped to protect the innocent]
>
> As far as I know, an environment variable could be used as an alternative. It
> can be set by shell scripts and the python test harness locally (only
> affecting the started svn sub process), and on most operating systems, other
> non-admin users don't have any ways to read out those.

I pull back my suggestion - I just learned that the counter examples
to the "most operating systems" above includes such prominent
candidates as Solaris.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Security_Team/html/Defensive_Coding/sect-Defensive_Coding-Tasks-Processes.html#sect-Defensive_Coding-Tasks-Processes-Command_Line_Visibility

There also is the suggestion of using special file descriptors
whose number is passed on the command line, this might be an
extension to the file and stdin suggestion which was discussed
elsewhere in this thread.

Best regards

Markus Schaber

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