23 Jul
2003
23 Jul
'03
07:21
* mailinglists wrote on Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 14:02 +0200:
I think, it's because any user might see the commandline with the unencrypted password via ps jax -command ;-)
Yes, any user standing right behind me. And also if every user is root. ;-)
You don't need to be root to execute the ps command, you just need to be logged in. BTW, on NIS servers itself there should be no login for users. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.