On Dec 06 02:20:49, [email protected] wrote:
> >> conclusion: shell is not good for this
> >
> > Yeah right.
> > Who would even think of doing this in shell.
>
> apparently at least one person did
I was being sarcastic of course, dipshit.
> you aren't in sync with the quantity of real world shells that use
> temp files for heredoc, and who feature combinations of { printf
> (not)? being a builtin, alternatives like ``print'' and ``echo'' are
> unportable }
Indeed, I am not in sync with the quantity of real world shells
(as opposed to sh?), thank god. Christian's code is pure sh though.
> >> even if it keeps heredocs in memory you have no idea if it zeros it
> >> out afterwards
Also, the letters of the password get read
by the console driver as you type them.
God knows what happens there.
On Dec 06 08:15:19, [email protected] wrote:
> you use cat, muffin face:
> ...
> STTY=`stty -g`
> echo -n "Password: "
> stty -echo
> cat > PASSWORD_FILE_DONT_READ_IF_YOU_ARE_OTHER_PROCESS_PLS
So after typing "password" and hitting [enter],
you are still running that cat.
Just what the user expects.
