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Re: More netcfg and ppp observations - security implication?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Fri Nov 1 22:58:37 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 22:54:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, bomber wrote:
> > 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
>
> 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! :)
> bomber
That's dandy for popclient. Is there a broader solution that would
encompass pppd?
Kyle
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