[PATCH 1/2] s3fs-popt: Add function to burn the commandline password.

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Mon Nov 5 10:23:07 MST 2012


On Monday 05 November 2012 08:02:47 Michael Adam wrote:
> Hi Andreas,

Hi Michael,

> I agree with Andrew: the patch certainly does not harm, but
> it might create a false sense of safety for specifying passwords
> on the command line. We should not recommend that for production use.
> So I am not quite certain what the patch is supposed to achieve.
> Could you explain?

you read my initial mail of this thread, did you?


It creates 99% more safety than before.


	-- andreas


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