Henrik van Ginhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
problem, I agree. On large networks some evil-minded person could
write a tiny cron-script that ran once every 5 minutes or so to
parse ps-output looking for nothing but passwords,
Note that the standard workaround for this problem, which is now
Note that the standard workaround for this problem, which is now even
documented in the manual, is to use the `-i -' option. For example:
wget -i -
http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/directory/file
^D
But I agree that's just a workaround. I'm now more open to the idea
of introducing a prompting
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Henrik van Ginhoven wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Now, something occurs to ME. There really SHOULD be an alternate means of
prompting the user for a password
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Now, something occurs to ME. There really SHOULD be an alternate means of
prompting the user for a password (i.e. something which is not readily
visible through ps, (or saved to a history file) I mean REALLY. wget
shows username:*password*
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Now, something occurs to ME. There really SHOULD be an alternate means of
prompting the user for a password (i.e. something which is not readily
visible through
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Henrik van Ginhoven wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Now, something occurs to ME. There really SHOULD be an alternate means of
prompting the user for a password
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:20:57PM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Henrik van Ginhoven wrote: (no I did not ;)
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Now, something occurs to
To: Doug Kaufman
Cc: Dan Mahoney, System Admin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: arguably a bug
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:20:57PM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Henrik van Ginhoven wrote: (no I did not ;)
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Dan Mahoney,
System
Unlike ncftpget and ncftpput, wget appears to have no mechanism for controlling ftp
authentication. It always appears to perform an anonymous ftp transfer with no
supplied password.
However, it would be desirable to allow a user and password override to allow wget to
retrieve from
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Andrew Mayo wrote:
Unlike ncftpget and ncftpput, wget appears to have no mechanism for
controlling ftp authentication. It always appears to perform an
anonymous ftp transfer with no supplied password.
However, it would be desirable to allow a user and password override
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