25 Apr
2022
25 Apr
'22
2:55 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 07:30:16PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
The downside of putting the password on the command line is that it will (briefly) be visible in the output of 'ps':
richard 9449 0.0 0.0 5040 3616 pts/4 R+ 19:27 0:00 /usr/bin/doveconf -f service=doveadm -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -m doveadm -e /usr/bin/doveadm pw -p asdf
Can this problem not be solved by using pw -p "$(some cmd to echo the password)"?
E.g. if using Jason Donenfeld's password store application "pass",1:
pw -p "$(pass Email/mydomain.com)"Sam