"Email-Firewalls" / Instant Corporate PGP
Ed Carp
ecarp at netcom.com
Sun May 22 12:05:03 PDT 1994
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> A more secure way is not to setenv PGPPASS but rather:
> setenv PGPPASSFD 1
> and then
> (echo "vinces passphrase" ; cat mailtmp.asc) | pgp -f >> mailtmp
>
> The PGPPASSFD means take the passphrase from file descriptor 1, which is
> the standard input. This way it never appears in the environment of a
> process. Many unix systems have a switch to ps to show all processes'
> environments.
I thought stdin was 0, and stdout was 1...
- --
Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3 ecarp at netcom.com 519/824-3307
Finger ecarp at netcom.com for PGP 2.3a public key an88744 at anon.penet.fi
If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than
steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"
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