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Re: More netcfg and ppp observations - security implication?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill D)
Fri Nov 1 20:55:46 1996
From: Bill D <billd@voicenet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:53:53 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961101201137.16350B-100000@bigbang.phy.duke.edu> from "Kyle Ferrio" at Nov 1, 96 08:24:38 pm
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Kyle Ferrio wrote:
> Something else that I'm sure has been discussed/solved in this and broader
> forums is the issue of the -entire- chat script showing up in the output
> of `ps -axf`.
Something similarly insidious happens for those of us who use popclient to
retrieve mail. I have a shell script that reads,
popclient -3 -u billd -p <passwd> mail.voicenet.com -o /var/spool/mail/billd
needless to say, the password is readily obtainable via the ps command.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Bill
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