| -k now points to an environment variable containing the password - ii - irc it,… | |
| git clone git://git.suckless.org/ii | |
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| commit c68beccf597984396c7ef22dd5b1a8eed4ab69a1 | |
| parent 2bcd27c9e8bd1e4ce4da5af9218024736c1976e4 | |
| Author: Nico Golde <[email protected]> | |
| Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:00:31 +0200 | |
| -k now points to an environment variable containing the password | |
| Diffstat: | |
| M CHANGES | 5 +++++ | |
| M ii.1 | 9 ++++----- | |
| M ii.c | 2 +- | |
| 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) | |
| --- | |
| diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES | |
| @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ | |
| +1.7 (20XX-XX-XX) | |
| + - -k now specifies an environment variable that contains the | |
| + server key. This behaviour has been changed in order to not | |
| + expose the password in the process list. | |
| + | |
| 1.6 (2011-01-31): | |
| - fix regression introduced for handling unknown commands | |
| diff --git a/ii.1 b/ii.1 | |
| @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ and ii creates a new channel directory with in and out file. | |
| .RB [ \-p | |
| .IR port ] | |
| .RB [ \-k | |
| -.IR password ] | |
| +.IR environment variable ] | |
| .RB [ \-i | |
| .IR prefix ] | |
| .RB [ \-n | |
| @@ -42,10 +42,9 @@ lets you override the default servername (irc.freenode.net) | |
| .BI \-p " port" | |
| lets you override the default port (6667) | |
| .TP | |
| -.BI \-k " password" | |
| -lets you use a password to authenticate your nick on the server | |
| -(be aware of the problem that this is visible in the process list, if you | |
| -don't want this use a query to submit your password) | |
| +.BI \-k " environment variable" | |
| +lets you specify an environment variable that contains your IRC password, e.g.… | |
| +This is done in order to prevent other users from eavesdropping the server pas… | |
| .TP | |
| .BI \-i " prefix" | |
| lets you override the default irc path (~/irc) | |
| diff --git a/ii.c b/ii.c | |
| @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { | |
| case 's': host = argv[++i]; break; | |
| case 'p': port = strtol(argv[++i], NULL, 10); break; | |
| case 'n': snprintf(nick,sizeof(nick),"%s", argv[++i]);… | |
| - case 'k': key = argv[++i]; break; | |
| + case 'k': key = getenv(argv[++i]); break; | |
| case 'f': fullname = argv[++i]; break; | |
| default: usage(); break; | |
| } |