You can edit the file srcds_run:
SIGINT_ACTION="quit 0" # exit normally on sig int
NO_TRAP=0
AUTO_UPDATE=""
STEAM_USER=""
STEAM_PASSWORD=""
PARAMS=$*
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:16:58 -0800, ScratchMonkey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there some way to run the steam binary without passing it the password
> on the command line? My concern is that any user on the host can see the
> password with ps. Other programs that accept a password (such as smbmount,
> for mounting Windows filesystems) accept login credentials from a file to
> avoid just this security hole. Is there an equivalent for steam?
>
> In my case, I want to provide a command to my admins on my website to show
> the results of "ps fws ${SRCDS_RUN_PIDFILE}", but I don't want them to see
> the steam password.
>
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