I notice a possible problem with reauth.
The password is given on the command line.
The program then erases the password from the argv[] array.
On some systems, the ps command may display the password
because the command line text may be stored elsewhere.
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[ Joe Ramus  NERSC Livermore  (510) 423-8917   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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>> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 09:36:08 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roch Leduc) writes:
>> > All right folks, the million dolar question: 
>> > what do I do with daemons under AFS?
>> > 
>> > They cannot be authenticated for more than 25 hours; they must authenticate
>> > somehow or all their work is system:anyuser (not very secure for mail)
>> > Am I missing something provided in the AFS package?
>> 
>> We have a set of contributed scripts that solves just this problem.
>> Check out these two directories:
>>      /afs/grand.central.org/pub/afs-contrib/tools/reauth/ 
>>      /afs/grand.central.org/pub/afs-contrib/tools/reauth-example/
>>
>> If you don't have an AFS client, you can FTP the files from
>> grand.central.org (192.54.226.100) from the /pub/afs-contrib/tools
>> area. 
>> 
>> Joe Jackson,
>> AFS Product Support,
>> Transarc Corp.
>> 

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