Re: lynx-dev passing the authentication login/password via a file?

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> > We are using "lynx" on a UNIX box to download files from a secure site.  We 
> > currently pass the login and password using the "-auth" argument.  It works 
> > well.  However, my concern is that while it is running, any user can do a 
> > "ps"  
> > and see the login and password in clear text.  I was wondering if there is 
> > a way to have the login and password in a file, or set in an environment 
> > variable instead of having it used on the command line. 
> 
> no - iirc it's only from the commandline; we'd have to implement it -
> a file maybe (environment variables are not necessarily secure either)

Reading of flags from stdin is already there, and has been for a long
time.  Try

   $ lynx http://somewhere...  -
   -auth=...
   ^D

and

   $ lynx http://somewhere...  -dump  - < ~/mylynxflags


   Klaus