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Re: SSL Key password from environment variable and not from the command line

From: Juergen Brauckmann <brauckmann_at_dfn-cert.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:01:40 +0100

Dan Fandrich wrote:
> Don't assume that passing data in an environment variable is always secure.
> There are platforms where they are be visible to another user (e.g. Solaris).

Could you give more hints, please? How can you read environment
variables of a process from another user under Solaris?

Regards,
   Juergen
Received on 2006-01-13