curl-users
RE: SSL Key password from environment variable and not from the command line
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:42:26 +0100
How about:
/usr/ucb/ps -axe
it will show the environment stringsmaybe they are trucatedor you might have a long argument list
in that case try:
/usr/ucb/ps -axew
and add more w's to get more output.
Linux has the same habit, as has AIX, Tru64
Regards,
Nico Baggus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
> [mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Juergen
> Brauckmann
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 09:02
> To: the curl tool
> Subject: Re: SSL Key password from environment variable and
> not from the command line
>
>
> 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
>
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