Re: cnetworkmanager: Will --wpa-pass expose my password?

[Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss gmail com>]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:32 AM,  <bromley lavabit com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'd like to try cnetworkmanager. The only thing that stops me is the
> following options:
>
>   --wep-hex=KEY         use this WEP key of 26 hex digits
>   --wep-pass=KEY        use this WEP passphrase
>   --wpa-psk-hex=KEY     use this WPA key of 64 hex digits
>   --wpa-pass=KEY        use this WPA passphrase
>
> Will the above put a password in .bash_history?
>
> I don't want to store my password in a file (even with strict
> permissions.)

ΙΜΗΟ .bash_history is not such a big problem since you can
just do unset HISTFILE before calling the command.

/proc/*/cmdline on the other hand is probably more dangerous
and less easy to deal with.