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From: jjw@celerity.UUCP (Jim )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Destroying arguments
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Date: Mon, 25-May-87 13:59:05 EDT
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Reply-To: jjw@celerity.UUCP (Jim (JJ) Whelan)
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If you really want secure arguments then they shouldn't be on the command line
at all.  Put them in a file with read permission denied to all but the owner
and pass the name of the file to the program.

Anyone with a Berkeley based system should check out what happens with
	"ps axww"
(that's two w's) to see how secure the idea of pushing the arguments down
the list are.

					-- J. J. Whelan
					   Celerity Computing