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From: jjw@celerity.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Destroying arguments
Message-ID: <200@celerity.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 17:33:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: celerity.200
Posted: Tue May 26 17:33:43 1987
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Reply-To: jjw@celerity.UUCP (Jim (JJ) Whelan)
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In article <15605@gatech.gatech.edu> hope@gatech.UUCP (Theodore Hope @ LEGOLAND) writes:

>If you _really_ want secure (i.e., unreadable) arguments then fill up your
>environment with _lots_ of junk.  Twenty-five or so environment variables set
>to about 70 characters each will keep 'w' and 'ps' from displaying them, even
>with ps axwwwwwww.
>
>This works on BSD systems, although different implementations might "require"
>you to have much more in your environment.
>
>I don't think it works on SysV.

Also doesn't work on Celerity BSD systems which can find the command arguments
regardless of environment variables.