> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > No, that isn't the problem...the problem is that initdb, if you run it
> > with command line arguments, will show up in a ps listing with those
> > command line arguments...
> >
> > if you type 'initdb --pgpasswd=passwd' it will show up in pas as exactly
> > that ...
>
> Not to mention the world readable shell history files which would make
> this even more convenient ...
Man, why is my bash shell history world-readable. Who's idea was that?
Also, Peter, I got you the sed -f option to use files as sed
parameters, which gets us out of this problem. Another day, another
escape from recoding it in C... :-)
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