 | | | up2date and plain text passwords | up2date and plain text passwords 2003-11-03 - By Post, Mark K
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My team is setting up a number of RHEL systems. Being reasonably sensible
folks, we want to be able to use RHN/up2date to download maintenance. Our
company firewalls require a userid and password to get "out. "
Something that horrifies us about up2date is that our userid and password
are stored in the configuration files as plain text. I really do not want
to be able to see the firewall passwords for my team members, and they don 't
want to see mine. I have not been able to figure out a way to not put those
values in the configuration file, and then get prompted for them when
starting up2date. This would seem to be a logical behavior, since most web
browsers operate that way, but I haven 't found the magic incantation to get
it to happen.
Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance.
Mark Post
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