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Re: Security risks with curl and DynDNS?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 12:44:01 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Blenda wrote:

> But what if someone can see the command (with the password) I am sending?
> For example, a user on my system.

That is a true risk. On most systems[*] curl's command line options that might
contain passwords are hidden to others. And either way, you can provide the
name and password in another way that hides it from the command line, like
using a config file (passed to -K) or in a .netrc file (enabled with -n).

[*] = not all systems allow this

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Received on 2005-10-09