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Just a tip when storing passwords in a daemon. On most platforms putting it in the environment isn't any safer than putting it in a file on disk (if you are on a linux box, try 'cat /proc/$$/environ').

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Re: Re: Re: plaintext password in scripts run through cron
by robobunny (Friar) on Oct 17, 2003 at 13:44 UTC
    Well that's unfortunate. I guess you're better off avoiding environment variables for that sort of thing then, although Solaris and Tru64 don't supply that info in /proc. I don't know about other OS's.
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      Just because they don't provide it in /proc doesn't mean it isn't available. I used linux as an example just because it's available so easily, but the environment is not safe on most platforms, not just linux.

      We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!
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