On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:16:16PM +0000, Merlin wrote: > On Thursday 27 December 2001 16:46, Benjamin Smith wrote: > > > > Because that doesn't solve the original problem of the password being > > visible on the command line. The environment and the stdin were two > > suggested ways of passing the password. > > > > Why is all that for ? > Isn't you who's writing the program? Why don't you program just ask the > password?
It will be used mostly non-interactive. The user can run it inside a cronjob or a www/cgiscript. I can also write a user-interface for the program which asks the password. But the "low-level" interface will not be interactive.
