On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 05:27:00PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote: > [2012-06-16 17:00] Nico Golde <n...@ngolde.de> > > > > Thanks for reminding me. ii tip contains a change now so that -k specifies > > an environment variable containing the password and not the password > > directly. > > AFAIR the environment can be displayed, too. I think it was `ps e'. > Hence the fix is no fix.
A process environment is not necessarily public. Most systems nowadays do not expose process environments by default.
