Re: [dev] [ii] exposed password on process monitoring

From: Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:48:33 +0100

Hey,

On 19 April 2012 17:34, Truls Becken <truls.becken_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> $ ii &
> $ cat ~/irc/freenode_login_script > ~/irc/irc.freenode.net/in
>
> No need for the program to implement password support at all really.

'ii -k' sends the server a PASS message, which must be done before
NICK or USER. This is unrelated to nickserv etc.

On 19 April 2012 17:24, Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking in having -k with no argument to go search for a file
> like oftc.passwd and grab the password from there.

How about making 'ii -k -' read the password from stdin? Flags with
optional arguments are bad, imo.

cls
Received on Thu Apr 19 2012 - 18:48:33 CEST