05-13-2011
If I could make a quick feature request - to be able to copy a password to the clipboard (pref. plain X11) instead of outputing otherwise (I've had a quick look for a way to do this to no avail). Also a util to securely erase a file a password was output to would be complimentary.
This was an interesting article,
The Usability of Passwords. It appears a short phrase of (near) normal English is as secure as 8 or so mixed symbols/chars.
Myself I'm still trying to figure how I'm getting incidents of MITM style data injection over a SSL vpn to a https webpage! (I can't do any more to make the physical machine itself more secure either - so I am assuming this is not the problem, and I'm not running any dodgy software otherwise.)
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globus_url_t
globus_url_t(3) globus common globus_url_t(3)
NAME
globus_url_t -
SYNOPSIS
Data Fields
char * scheme
globus_url_scheme_t scheme_type
char * user
char * password
char * host
unsigned short port
char * url_path
char * dn
char * attributes
char * scope
char * filter
char * url_specific_part
Detailed Description
Parsed URLs.
This structure contains the fields which were parsed from an string representation of an URL. There are no methods to access fields of this
structure.
Field Documentation
char* globus_url_t::scheme
A string containing the URL's scheme (http, ftp, etc)
globus_url_scheme_t globus_url_t::scheme_type
An enumerated scheme type. This is derived from the scheme string
char* globus_url_t::user
The username portion of the URL. [ftp, gsiftp]
char* globus_url_t::password
The user's password from the URL. [ftp, gsiftp]
char* globus_url_t::host
The host name or IP address of the URL. [ftp, gsiftp, http, https, ldap, x-nexus
unsigned short globus_url_t::port
The TCP port number of the service providing the URL [ftp, gsiftp, http, https, ldap, x-nexus].
char* globus_url_t::url_path
The path name of the resource on the service providing the URL. [ftp, gsiftp, http, https]
char* globus_url_t::dn
The distinguished name for the base of an LDAP search. [ldap]
char* globus_url_t::attributes
The list of attributes which should be returned from an LDAP search. [ldap]
char* globus_url_t::scope
The scope of an LDAP search. [ldap]
char* globus_url_t::filter
The filter to be applied to an LDAP search [ldap].
char* globus_url_t::url_specific_part
An unparsed string containing the remaining text after the optional host and port of an unknown URL, or the contents of a x-gass-cache URL
[x-gass-cache, unknown].
Author
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