Hi, * Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.ka...@gmail.com> [2012-04-20 01:54]: > On 20 April 2012 02:24, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote: > > On 19 April 2012 23:51, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote: [...] > however if one wants to connect to more than one server > and has a different password for that other server then > the env var doesn't help, scriptwise talking. > > ofcourse one can reset the var and invoke the new ii isntance, > but if you're doing that in a script and you don't want to be > including the passwd within the script then this cant work.
Why not, the script could read it from a file not? Even though I don't see the
difference. Whoever can read that script likely can also read the file.
> well, what I have in mind with that ^ is something like:
> $ IRCPASS="fooo" connect.sh
> and connect.sh fires up two ii instances to connect to
> two different server which need a different password.
>
> I think a nice thing to do that would also resolve the
> naming choice would be to have -k or some other argument
> mean that ii should read the -k flag as an env var. so
> $ ii -k IRCPASS
> would getenv("IRCPASS"), and
> $ ii -k OFTCPASS
> would getenv("OFTCPASS")
> etc
I agree this is actually also a very nice solution! I will think about that a
little before I commit.
Cheers
Nico
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