Re: Commands with passwords as options

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 February 2011 22:15, Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some commands take passwords as option values, which is not very secure... I
> was wondering if there is some way to handle that, for example through a
> custom completer. Ideally, I here is how it should behave:
>  - When reaching an option which expected value is a password, prompt for it
> and read it from stdin
>  - Do not display it in the buffer (just replace it with "XXXX" for example)
>  - When accepting the buffer, replace the displayed buffer with the real one
>  - Save the displayed buffer in the history rather than the real one
>
> Does anyone have an idea on how to achieve this ?

That doesn't actually achieve anything, the password is still visible
in /proc/<pid>/cmdline.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson