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bug#8427: [SECURITY] sql.el -- comint process passwords are leaked to ps


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#8427: [SECURITY] sql.el -- comint process passwords are leaked to ps(1) listing
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:02:36 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> Apparently, no they cannot, since mysql replaces the password characters
> with x's:

Of course, that still leaves the chars exposed during a short time window.


        Stefan





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