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

From: Nico Golde <nico_AT_ngolde.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:37:40 +0200

Hi,
* Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak_AT_gmail.com> [2012-04-20 01:54]:
> On 20 April 2012 02:24, Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com> wrote:
> > On 19 April 2012 23:51, Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com> wrote:
[...]
> however if one wants to connect to more than one server
> and has a different password for that other server then
> the env var doesn't help, scriptwise talking.
>
> ofcourse one can reset the var and invoke the new ii isntance,
> but if you're doing that in a script and you don't want to be
> including the passwd within the script then this cant work.

Why not, the script could read it from a file not? Even though I don't see the
difference. Whoever can read that script likely can also read the file.

> well, what I have in mind with that ^ is something like:
> $ IRCPASS="fooo" connect.sh
> and connect.sh fires up two ii instances to connect to
> two different server which need a different password.
>
> I think a nice thing to do that would also resolve the
> naming choice would be to have -k or some other argument
> mean that ii should read the -k flag as an env var. so
> $ ii -k IRCPASS
> would getenv("IRCPASS"), and
> $ ii -k OFTCPASS
> would getenv("OFTCPASS")
> etc

I agree this is actually also a very nice solution! I will think about that a
little before I commit.

Cheers
Nico

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