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Re: How to stop bearer tokens leaking

From: Patrick Monnerat via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 14:44:51 +0100

On 11/5/21 10:43, Stephen Booth via curl-library wrote:
> If I use basic-auth the curl binary hides the credentials passed on
> the command line from being seen using ps -1
> Whats the best way of protecting bearer tokens in the same way?
> AFAIK the only way of setting a bearer token is to use the generic -H
> flag

You should use the --oauth2-bearer option. Unfortunately it does not
(yet) obfuscate its argument. A PR for it is pending:
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7964

Patrick

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Received on 2021-11-05