ADSM-L

Password Visibility - did I miss something?

1997-01-22 12:50:09
Subject: Password Visibility - did I miss something?
From: Tim Dobrowolsky <tim AT CATRS.CAT.CC.MD DOT US>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:50:09 -0500
I've had this same problem with other software.  At some point the program
runs something with secure information such as a password as parameters, and
thus
ps can reveal information you don't want out.  So when I got adsm installed on
my AIX box I checked the ps listing and saw that dsmc had -password= but no
password visible.  Therefore I assumed that the obvious security problem of
passwords on the command line was taken care of.

Am I wrong about this?  Maybe there's another ps command that will reveal more
information?
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