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Re: [PATCH] svn_load_dirs.pl: do not print password to screen

From: Geoffrey Alary <geoffrey.alary_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:17:46 +1200

Hi Brane,

Ok I understand, thank you.

Best regards,
Geoffrey

Le dim. 14 juil. 2019 à 19:52, Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> a écrit :
>
> On 14.07.2019 09:47, Geoffrey Alary wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> >>> CC: both of the most recent and biggest contributors to this file.
> >> In principle, same answer as in the other thread (ENOTIME unless it's a
> >> regression I signed off on); but…
> > Ok noted. Thank you for your replies.
> >
> >>> It implements a security feature: to hide the password when printing
> >>> the command line to screen.
> >> I suggest to add a warning to usage() that passing the password in
> >> a command-line argument may make it visible to other local OS users.
> > Do you mean that showing a warning message would be preferable to
> > actually fixing the problem? If yes, why would that be?
>
> On Unix, the 'ps' command can show the entire command line to other
> users, so this consideration is independent of what svn_load_dirs.pl is
> doing.
>
> -- Brane
Received on 2019-07-14 14:17:47 CEST

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