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Re: lynx-dev passing the authentication login/password via a file?
From: |
Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev passing the authentication login/password via a file? |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:28:42 -0500 (CDT) |
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> > We are using "lynx" on a UNIX box to download files from a secure site. We
> > currently pass the login and password using the "-auth" argument. It works
> > well. However, my concern is that while it is running, any user can do a
> > "ps"
> > and see the login and password in clear text. I was wondering if there is
> > a way to have the login and password in a file, or set in an environment
> > variable instead of having it used on the command line.
>
> no - iirc it's only from the commandline; we'd have to implement it -
> a file maybe (environment variables are not necessarily secure either)
Reading of flags from stdin is already there, and has been for a long
time. Try
$ lynx http://somewhere... -
-auth=...
^D
and
$ lynx http://somewhere... -dump - < ~/mylynxflags
Klaus