Re: ps information leak in FreeBSD

[Damien Miller]

Crist J. Clark wrote:

Any program that asks for a password on the command line should have
the common decency to overwrite/obfuscate it, along the lines of,

	case 'p':
		passwd = optarg;
		optarg = "********";
		break;

So that it doesn't show up in any "ps" output.

That works only for OSs which support argv clobbering - it is by no means portable and shouldn't be depended on for security.

-d