Bug#831296: Please allow reading password from elsewhere

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:07:47PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Thanks for the catch and the --pw-file hint. Unfortunately, stable's > hdav does not have --password-file, and neither does 1.2 in > unstable, it seems. 1.3 (not in Debian) has interactive password prompting. Presumably you could

Bug#831296: Please allow reading password from elsewhere

also sprach Daniel Kahn Gillmor [2016-07-15 14:47 +0200]: > this actually does show up in argv, because bash replaces the output of > cat on the cmdline before exec'ing the command. > > what you'd really like is to be able to read the password from a file or > a file descriptor.

Bug#831296: Please allow reading password from elsewhere

Hi madduck-- On Thu 2016-07-14 14:23:26 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I don't want the password to show up in argv… sure, > > --password $(cat =(echo 's3cr3t')) > > works, but it'd be nice if there was another way, including > prompting, or a session config file. this actually does show up

Bug#831296: Please allow reading password from elsewhere

Package: hdav Version: 1.2-1+b4 Severity: wishlist I don't want the password to show up in argv… sure, --password $(cat =(echo 's3cr3t')) works, but it'd be nice if there was another way, including prompting, or a session config file. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT