Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 44339: /trunk/ /trunk/ui/gtk/: main.c /trunk/: tshark.c

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:15:16PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> I agree, you are able to see the password by using -A, but isn't the same true if you use Wireshark's
> GUI? Wireshark will start dumpcap with the -A command line argument and voila, ps provides it.
> 
> If we want to make the password not visible by ps, we should not only do it partially. Any idea?

The solution used by other tools is to either provide a filename containting the
password or even username+password or a filehandle to read the authentication data
from.

Ciao
        Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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