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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Hiding Password Post 302304587 by Kishinevetz on Monday 6th of April 2009 09:06:15 PM
Old 04-06-2009
Hiding Password

Hello. A bit of a puzzle here:
I have a 3rd party executable, which requires the following parameters:
parm1 = program_name, parm2=userid/password, parm3=additional flags.
We tried passing password as a variable, but you can do grep, and see what the password actually is
I found a bit different approach, but cannot get it to work
In my script I have something like /mydir/exec prg_name "?" parm3
When I execute my script the "?" is interpreted into prompts: user id and password. How can I pass password without user involvement, and not make it visible via ps?

Your help is greatly appreciated
 

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HTML::FormHandler::Field::Password(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   HTML::FormHandler::Field::Password(3pm)

NAME
HTML::FormHandler::Field::Password - password field VERSION
version 0.40013 DESCRIPTION
The password field has a default minimum length of 6, which can be easily changed: has_field 'password' => ( type => 'Password', minlength => 7 ); It does not come with additional default checks, since password requirements vary so widely. There are a few constraints in the HTML::FormHandler::Types modules which could be used with this field: NoSpaces, WordChars, NotAllDigits. These constraints can be used in the field definitions 'apply': use HTML::FormHandler::Types ('NoSpaces', 'WordChars', 'NotAllDigits' ); ... has_field 'password' => ( type => 'Password', apply => [ NoSpaces, WordChars, NotAllDigits ], ); You can add your own constraints in addition, of course. If a password field is not required, then the field will be marked 'noupdate', to prevent a null from being saved into the database. ne_username Set this attribute to the name of your username field (default 'username') if you want to check that the password is not the same as the username. Does not check by default. AUTHOR
FormHandler Contributors - see HTML::FormHandler COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Gerda Shank. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-25 HTML::FormHandler::Field::Password(3pm)
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