On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:27:20AM -0500, Brian wrote:
> you do realize that you are passing your enable password/secret in clear
> text for anyone on that machine to see in the output of a "ps -aux / ps
> -ef"?  I woudln't recommend doing that.  It would be more secure to open a
> file handle to an rsh or ssh process connected to the router, and just
> read and write from that.........

Yes, the machine is kernelf firewall protected and doesn't
have user accounts.

And yes I dislike that concept as well, but this was only a quick
hack in half an hour...

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