Re: [HACKERS] TODO list updated

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-01-13T13:22:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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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