Hide password in command line

Appalbarry / Gmail-Backup

Gmail Backup was written by Jan Svec and Filip Jurcicek. It appears to have been abandoned for at least a couple of years, but still works just fine with my Mint Linux set up. The Google Code site was about to be shut down in a few days, so I exported it over to Git Hub, primarily so that I know there's an easily available copy that I can access in the future. If you know of a more recent update or fork, please let me know. (Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/gmail-backup-com

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Hide password in command line #7

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Hi,
it is more an enhancement request than a bug:

When gmail-backup is launched thru command line, the password can be read in 
clear text within the process list. Not very secure.

Can you add a mecanism where password can be read from a file, or modify the 
launch process to hide the password (like mysqldump by example)?

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vallo...@googlemail.com on 26 Jul 2011 at 12:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

I would also really like this feature, I do not feel comfortable typing my 
password into command line in plain text.

Original comment by davetcoleman on 15 May 2014 at 7:36