On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:13:00PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > htpasswd is missing a feature there to get the password from a file > descriptor.
Or from a pipe. This is an upstream issue, can you pass it onwards? > What the manpage means is probably that one should use -b only when > necessary. From a shell script the use of -b might be acceptable > because the password will not be put into .bash_history and htpasswd > runs only for a very short time (so it's difficult to get the > password with ps). It is still ugly. > A real workaround would be to feed the password to htpasswd with socat > (search for ssh in the socat man page for an example), but this is > IMHO not suitable for a postinst because of the added dependency. And it is even more ugly. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
