From: Dr Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
drh> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
drh> >
drh> >
drh> > Hmm. There's no need to have the password in a file, that can as well
drh> > be piped in ('cat passwdfile | openssl x509 -passstdin ...' to take a
drh> > Unixly example, and yes, there's a way to do that on VMS as well).
drh>
drh> Yes but there's windoze to consider as well... I wish it could be
drh> ignored too.
Uhmm, so pipes are out of the question in windoze? Seriously? What
about redirection? I'm pretty sure I've seen examples of both...
drh> Maybe something like
drh>
drh> -pass{in,out} source:arg
drh>
drh> which would have things like...
drh>
drh> password:hello
drh> env:ENV_PASSWD
drh> fd:5
drh> file:mypasswdfile.txt
Is a colon really the best choice? In Windows/DOS and VMS, a colon is
an inherent and important part of the file spec. (probably more in VMS
than in Windows/DOS...)
Apart from that, I like the idea.
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