Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Any program that asks for a password on the command line should have
> the common decency to overwrite/obfuscate it, along the lines of,
>
> case 'p':
> passwd = optarg;
> optarg = "********";
> break;
>
> So that it doesn't show up in any "ps" output.

That works only for OSs which support argv clobbering - it is by no
means portable and shouldn't be depended on for security.

-d

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