Re: Automated database backups and authentication

From: "John Madden" <jmadden(at)ivytech(dot)edu>
To: <clarson(at)eldocomp(dot)com>
Cc: <arturp(at)plukwa(dot)pdi(dot)net>, <darren(at)zonarsystems(dot)com>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Automated database backups and authentication
Date: 2002-08-06 22:07:01
Message-ID: 48563.168.91.2.45.1028671621.squirrel@mail.ivytech.edu
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> The problem with that is most UNIX systems are able to display the
> contents of the environment of a process. Some make it easier than
> others (on BSD systems, it is as easy as a switch on "ps") but most
> can do it.
>
> That was (I believe) the reason that the variable was going away in
> 7.3, because it is a security hole.

Don't those systems only display the environment of the processes that one
owns? That's how it seems on Linux, anyway...

John

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John Madden
UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech State College
jmadden(at)ivytech(dot)edu

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