Re: mask password

From: Matthias Hoys <idmwarpzone_NOSPAM__at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 18:57:03 +0200
Message-ID: <427cf35f$0$19548$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

"Tom76" <rbhuma_at_ford.com> wrote in message news:1115407678.691500.245630_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>I found how to mask the user password.
>
> I am putting the password tom76/tom76 in a txt file(pword.txt). then
> running the program 'abc' like this:
> $abc < pword.txt
>
> now if i do 'ps -ef |grep abc', the userid and password is not getting
> displayed.
>
> thanks for all your responses.....
>

Make sure no one else can read the pword.txt file. Otherwise, users with read access to the system would still be able to get them.

Matthias Received on Sat May 07 2005 - 11:57:03 CDT