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

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Nov 5 13:05:19 MST 2012


On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 18:23 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> 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?

Andreas,

I also missed that initial mail, due to the thread structure (I saw the
patches as they were re-sent, but the reference to the overview mail
went back a few days). 

Andrew Bartlett

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