[jcifs] SMBException prints passwords

Michael B Allen mba2000 at ioplex.com
Sun Jun 27 17:48:11 GMT 2004


On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:28:44 +0200
Rolf.Breuning at t-online.de (Rolf Breuning) wrote:
> I thus propose to change either the toString() method of SmbFile or at 
> least the respective method of SmbException in such a way, that it does 
> not return the password, but something like a "....".

No. You should not use passwords in an SMB URL or any other URL for that
matter. It is there only as a convenience. You should create an NPA and
use that to build jCIFS objects instead.

Mike.

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