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- From: chris@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Chris Johnston)
- Subject: Re: Hiding a password while dumping
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.170812.9977@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: AM Investors, Chicago
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:08:12 GMT
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- >The problem: The -P flag take the user's unencrypted passwd as argument.
- >This means that while the backup is running, any user can see/learn the
- >passwd because it is displayed clearly in the output of the ps command.
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- On my machine (sun sparc) the isql program overwrites the password
- with spaces. So ps does not dislpay the password. Did you try this?
- What machine are you using? We use the isql that came with 4.0.1.
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- cj
- 312-786-4889
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