04-02-2002
Hiding password from ps
I'm calling a program with a command line arguement containing a password. while the process is running anyone on the system can ps -ef and see the password. Is there a way to prevent this from happening.
example
PROGRAM USERNAME/PASSWD
I've also tried
PROGRAM `cat passfile`
with passfile containing USERNAME/PASSWD
but it still appears
Anyway around this?
The program I'm calling is CONCSUB if anyone is familiar with Oracle Apps. And unfortunately it doesn't seem to have an interactive mode but only accept command line arguements.
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passwd.nntp
PASSWD.NNTP(5) File Formats Manual PASSWD.NNTP(5)
NAME
passwd.nntp - passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/news/passwd.nntp contains host-name-password triplets for use when authenticating client programs to NNTP servers. This file
is normally interpreted by the NNTPsendpassword routine in libinn(3). Blank lines and lines beginning with a number sign (``#'') are
ignored. All other lines should consist of three or four fields separated by colons:
host:name:password
host:name:password:style
The first field is the name of a host, and is matched in a case-insensitive manner. The second field is a user name, and the third is a
password. The optional fourth field specifies the type of authentication to use. The default is ``authinfo'' which means that NNTP
``authinfo'' commands are used to authenticate to the remote host. If either the username or password are empty, then the related command
will not be sent. (The ``authinfo'' command is a common extension to RFC 977.)
For example:
## UUNET needs a password, MIT doesn't.
mit.edu:bbn::authinfo
uunet.uu.net:bbn:yoyoma:authinfo
This file should not be world-readable.
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.14, dated 1996/09/06.
SEE ALSO
innd(8), libinn(3).
PASSWD.NNTP(5)