Your message dated Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:05:34 -0500 with message-id <[email protected]> has caused the report #704229, regarding spice-client: "-w password" (on the command line) is a security risk to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) [email protected]
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--- Begin Message ---(If possible, please preserve the 704229-forwarded address in any replies.) I reported the following bug to the Debian bug tracker, but realized it should probably just be forwarded upstream. Rob Browning <[email protected]> writes: > Package: spice-client > Version: 0.11.0-1 > > I think the spice client should probably support some other way of > specifying the password since putting it on the command line makes it > visible to any other users on the system. > > A reasonable alternative might be "--password-file foo". (cf. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704229) Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
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