On 2010-08-05, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
>> On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote:
>>> But why only the request for auth credentials?
>>
>> for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters
>> the password
>
> Well yes, but what if you actually want to script it?
Scripting passwords is considered a huge security hole, so people who
care about security try to prevent it by doing things like reading
passwords from /dev/tty instead of stdin.
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want my nose in
at lights!
gmail.com
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
