Re: prevent ps from showing the full command line

From: Peter Åstrand (peter_at_cendio.se)
Date: 06/24/03

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    Ravishankar M Sastry wrote:

    > Even this method has a flaw:
    > as long as the CLI is running, another command window can easily look
    > at the
    > command line(which contains userid/password) by simply doing a "ps
    > -ef" at the
    > unix prompt. This is undesirable and we want to avoid it.
    >

    > 3. any other suggestion for overcoming the problem mentioned above
    > [i.e., prevent ps command from showing the full command]

    If you are using OpenSSH: Vote for
    http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69. (Don't expect too much
    though; this bug is more than 18 months old but the OpenSSH folks still
    refuses the patches.) 

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