Feature request

[Darren Tucker]

Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:55:13PM +0100, Martin Kluge wrote:
>>So would you accept a patch to add a new command line option
>>(suggestion: -d) to specify a password directly on the command line?
> 
> This has been requested before but declined because it promotes insecure
> behavior. (Your system may be isolated, but all aren't and it's usually
> possible to see any arguments of all processes in the system.)
> 
> I seem to remember discussion about accepting the password on a file
> descriptor however. Search the mailing list and bugzilla.mindrot.org.

Probably this one:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69

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