subprocess escaping POpen?!

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-08-05, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
>> On Donnerstag 05 August 2010, Chris Withers wrote:
>>> But why only the request for auth credentials?
>> 
>> for security reasons I suppose - make sure a human enters
>> the password
>
> Well yes, but what if you actually want to script it?

Scripting passwords is considered a huge security hole, so people who
care about security try to prevent it by doing things like reading
passwords from /dev/tty instead of stdin.

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