Crist J. Clark wrote:
That works only for OSs which support argv clobbering - it is by no means portable and shouldn't be depended on for security.Any program that asks for a password on the command line should have the common decency to overwrite/obfuscate it, along the lines of, case 'p': passwd = optarg; optarg = "********"; break; So that it doesn't show up in any "ps" output.
-d