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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Hiding Password Post 302304778 by mgessner on Tuesday 7th of April 2009 09:29:52 AM
Old 04-07-2009
Run it from a C program
pipe(), fork(), dup the read part of the pipe on to the child's stdin, exec() in child with the parameters you have, and then write the username and password to the child process's stdin via the pipe.

The username and password WILL be visible in the text of the program, so if you can make it executable but not readable except by root, something like mode 0511? It can be executed by others, but the file can't be read. (I tried this on my openbsd system, and w/ mode 0111, I could run it.)

You may have to figure out what to do with the child's stdout. There are other issues to investigate, possibly, like detaching from the terminal, perhaps, and maybe daemon()'izing it.

HTH
 

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jifty::plugin::authentication::password::view

Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::View(3pm)	User Contributed Perl Documentation	Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::View(3pm)

NAME

       Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::View - views for password plugin

DESCRIPTION

       This provides the templates for the pages and forms used by the password authentication plugin.

TEMPLATES

   signup
       Displays a sign-up form.

   login
       Displays the login form.

   login_widget
       A handy template for embedding the login form. Just include it in your templates via:

	 show('/login_widget');

       See Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::Action::Login.

   let/reset_lost_password
       After requesting a password reset and clicking on the link sent by email, this receives that click and provides the form for resetting the
       password.

       See Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Action::ResetLostPassword.

   let/confirm_email
       Handles the work of confirming an email address for a new account.

       See Jifty::Plugin::Authenticaiton::Password::View.

   lost_password
       Starts the process of sending a link to reset a lost password by email.

       See Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::SendPasswordReminder.

   resend_confirmation
       Request a new email confirmation message be sent to your email account.

       See Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::Action::ResendConfirmation.

SEE ALSO

       Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password, Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::Dispatcher

LICENSE

       Jifty is Copyright 2005-2010 Best Practical Solutions, LLC.  Jifty is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2010-12-10			Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password::View(3pm)
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