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Re: LYNX-DEV Password protected pages during -traversal
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Scott McGee (Personal) |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Password protected pages during -traversal |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:32:40 -0700 |
address@hidden (Doug Muth) writes:
>
>Hi Scott McGee
>> That makes me
>>wonder if there shouldn't be either a way to specify username/password pairs
>>for a -traversal, or if we should just skip such pages during a -traversal.
>
> Specifying your username/passphrase on the command line would be a BAD
>idea. Anyone else on the system could do a `ps -aw` to get your passphrase.
Doug,
We are talking about password protected web pages here. Using your account
login and password on such pages would be a BAD idea. Since I don't do that,
there is no problem with someone doing a ps-aw to get my login and password.
At most, they would get a password and login for some web page. Yes, a
security hole, but then recall my first suggestion was to skip password
protected pages anyway.
Scott
Scott McGee: Salt Lake Community College Webmaster | When in danger,
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Email: address@hidden (Scott McGee) | run in circles,
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