I miss the -a command line option option for pca. When it comes to providing the MOS password I do not want the password stored cleartext in a config file, and I don't want it used on the command line where it can be read in the shell's command line history.
I use pca on servers that connect to a local caching proxy. I used to run 'pca -i -a missing' to patch a system, but since the -a option was deprecated I seem to have lost the ability to transmit my MOS auth credentials to the proxy server without using --user=, --passwd=. Unless there's another way to do this (and there very well may be), how about if --user is specified without a matching --passwd, the password is prompted for on the shell before proceeding? -- Fred Chagnon fchag...@gmail.com
