On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Todd Finney wrote: > At 09:11 AM 4/5/2004 -0400, William R. Knox wrote: > >Another reason to put it into the conf file instead of as an option to the > >rundig script in the cron job is that a command line option (i.e. the > >password) will appear in a 'ps' listing to anyone else on the system. > > False. See attrs.html.
I don't think that the original assertion is false, as stated. The comment is in reference to passing arguments to the rundig script. If you pass rundig a -u user:pass, the username and password will in fact show up in a process listing. However htdig itself, which is the program that uses the arguments supplied by '-u', will take care to hide that information. So to keep the username/password from being seen in a process listing, it is necessary to either call htdig directly or somehow insert those values directly into the body of the script. Or of course, use the authorization attribute in the config file. Jim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
