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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

About the shell escapes, it is not as bad as it sounds.
The problem will only appear if the password matches some file names in
the current directory. This is not something that is likely to happen
with REAL user passwords. A more painful effect is used by quote
characters.

I have already tested a workaround that should take care of all these
problems and it will be present in the next release.

Tomasz


W dniu 14.05.2014, 15:59, Ole Frendved Hansen pisze:
> Hi,
>
> The current linux installer from CAT does prompt the user for password and 
> stores this in plain text.
>
> Will it be possible to open an option for not storing the pwd?
> Storing the pwd encrypted is of cause another wanted feature.
>
> I have institutions refusing to use CAT for linux based on the plaintext 
> matter :-/
>
>
> A bug to report:
> We tried just give a star instead of the actual pwd - Oops, this did 
> shell-expant to filenames in current dir!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ole

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