Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx -auth=id:passwd question

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Scott McGee (Personal) wrote:

> CHAN Man-Chung <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >I have a question about the command line option "-auth=id:passwd" of
> >Lynx 2.5 as follow:
> >
> >How can I hide the id and password on the output of Unix command "ps
> >-ef"? I've tried to stored this option with startup URL in a file and
> >then "cat" it as a pipe to Lynx as "cat filename | lynx -" but it didn't
> >work. It just load the default homepage. Does anyone can solve this
> >problem? Can I save this option as a envinoment variable that Lynx will
> >read it automatically?
> 
> Well, you might try "lynx `cat filename`" which should work.

I do not know of a better way to do this, but lynx `cat filename` will
still put the password in the ps listing. 

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