[2286] in RedHat Linux List
Re: More netcfg and ppp observations - security implication?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill D)
Fri Nov 1 22:45:35 1996
From: Bill D <billd@voicenet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 22:43:44 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961101192805.304A-100000@localhost> from "bomber" at Nov 1, 96 07:30:01 pm
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bomber wrote:
> > 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.
> yeah, just don't specify the password option (leave out the -p <passwd>)
> in your command. popclient will then prompt you for the jpassword after
> you enter your initial command, and the jpassword option won't be visible
> from 'ps -aux'. try it! :)
But how would I run this from cron?
Bill
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