Pedro Zorzenon Neto said: > Thanks for you sugestion David, > > As it is a Perl script that will call the program, I'll do in the Perl > code something like this: > > $tmp=`umask 177; tempfile`; > fopen (PASS,">$tmp"); > print PASS $password; > fclose PASS; > `cat $tmp | myprogram enable $user $ip; rm -f $tmp`; > > will this be safe now?
why don't you just do
#!/usr/bin/perl
print('enter pass: ');
$tmp = <>;
system('myprogram enable $user $tmp $ip');
david flatz
