On 7 Oct 1999, KORN Andras wrote: > try a URI like <deb ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/debian unstable local>; the > password is printed on the screen in plain text. I believe it would be > better to not display the user:password bit at all, or at least mask the > password.
I've cleaned up the display and filename generations to omit the passwords, but I consider it to be a beautification. There are still may occurances where APT will rightly print out the password onto the screen. Basically if someone is looking over your shoulder they might see a password. Jason
