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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users When did UNIX start using encrypted passwords, and not displaying passwords when you type them in? Post 302606035 by gull04 on Friday 9th of March 2012 11:30:30 AM
Old 03-09-2012
I've used many flavours of unix since 1980 and Linux since 1992, I have yet to see one that echos anything back to the screen.

Here is the link to RFC86 which was the Pluggable Authentication Modules, but I can say that before that I had never seen a password echoed on any of the many versions that I had worked with.

These included DG's MVUX and DGUX, Dynix, Olivetti Unix, CT Unix and a number of others.
Last edited by gull04; 03-09-2012 at 12:32 PM.. Reason: Typo
 

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httppower

httppower(8)							     powerman							      httppower(8)

NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower  is  a  helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units.	It is run interac-
       tively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
	      Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
	      Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP authentication which sends the user and password
	      over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
	      Set the base URL.  Overrides the command line option.

       get [URL-suffix]
	      Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.

       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
	      Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-value pairs as argument.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/httppower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

ORIGIN

       PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters.  This software is open source and distributed under the terms
       of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman

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