At 03:51 AM 1/23/97 +0100, you wrote:
>im Dobrowolsky wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>ps augxwww (on AIX) will give you the whole command line, including the
>password.
>
>If you don't see the password when ou type ps, this is because the
>default behaviour of ps is the SystemV one, which limits the number of
>characters shown in the command line.  ps augxwww will act as a BSD ps,
>and will show you the whole commande line.
>

Here's what I got from ps augxwww: (just thought you'd want to see)

root     21586  0.0  1.0 1288  648      - A      Jan 17  0:00 /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/
dsmc schedule -password=

>>From a security point of view, you should never use the -password
>option. You should use a "generated" password instead.  See the
>documentation about this point.
>

I believe what you are saying and will switch to "generate" ASAP.

>

>Alain
>
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