muhahaha...+1 for the wary sysadmin yelling (sorry, I'm on THAT side pretty much 10 hours a day). He's right, though. We're in the process of rewriting setup scripts and remove old and unmaintained ones, so I just opened a bug for this scenario too. It's a too easy fix to not apply it.
https://github.com/web2py/web2py/issues/1078 On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 7:11:46 PM UTC+2, Michael M wrote: > > In my environment. I have to go to a different floor and sit at a linux > admin's desk to finalize the script. He yelled at me that the password > prompt should not be in clear text. And their policy is watch exactly what > non-admins are doing. > > On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 9:06:00 AM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote: >> >> uhm, pretty different topics. the setup file doesn't hold the password. >> the proposed fix just avoids prying eyes from snooping it (read, a >> collegue behind you) when you fill it........is there something I'm missing >> ? >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
