rdesktop and stdin.. how?

mortar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

A lot of websites advise against entering a password for an rdesktop connection, straight into xterm and they recommend that you use stdin to pass the program the password so that the password is not visible using ps, although none of them seem to show you how to actually perform this!!

Can anyone provide assistance?

thesnowman · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:43 am Post subject:

mortar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

awesome! I must've skimmed over that page because I couldn't understand it till now - thank you very much!

mortar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

I suppose that it's not possible to retrieve the password from a password file which the user doesn't have access to?- or maybe at least cannot read it in cleartext?