pass phrase

[Frank Tobin]

Werner Koch, at 18:54 on Thu, 20 Jan 2000, wrote:

> > command line, and I want to do it anyway.  It's my system, let _me_
> > decide how secure I want it.  Keep the FD interface for those who want
> > it, but please provide a command-line passphrase option for oddballs
> 
> No.  But you are free to change it yourself.

Personally, I'd like to hear an argument from Werner about this.  True, on
some systems such as Linux, one does not require special privileges to
read other's arguments, but on other systems, such as FBSD, it requires
kmem access.  If the setgid flags are removed from certain files, one
cannot see other's arguments, hence nullifying the problem with seeing
other's arguments.

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