Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Run a binary with sensitive information as cli flag

Run a binary with sensitive information as cli flag

I'm running a software, that requires me to start it with some sensitive
information (password, etc.) as cli flags.
software --password "myPassword"
Now, when I run ps -ef | grep password I see the password in plain text,
which is makes the password useless. Is there a way to safely start this
binary, without the password showing up later on?

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