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On Sunday, September 7 at 02:53 PM, quoth Peter Davis:
> I guess all I really need would be for mutt to have an environment
> variable (or some such thing) that I could use to pass the password
> on the command line:
>
> macro index G "!inc -user [EMAIL PROTECTED] -pass $MYPASSWORD\n"
>
> Is that do-able?
Do-able? Yes. Wise from a security standpoint? No. Anyone on your
machine can do a `ps axw` (or a similar command) to discover your
password while the inc command is running.
If you really don't care, why not save your password to disk. Heck,
you could even do this:
macro index G "!inc -user [EMAIL PROTECTED] -pass `cat ~/.pfdpass`\n"
~Kyle
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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the
government fears the people, there is liberty.
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