Re: [Nagios-devel] Need a way to prevent custom object variables (e.g. password) from going into environment

[<rou...@cs...>]

In message <200...@ed...>,
Joerg Linge writes:

>Am Freitag, 29. Dezember 2006 18:36 schrieb rou...@cs...:
>> Hi all:
>[...]
>> It also mentions that custom object vars are available as
>> environmental variables. Is there a way to turn that off? I.E. if the
>> variable was a password you don't want that being passed in the
>> environment where it is viewable by everybody.
>
>The ENV Vars are only available for new processes forked by the Nagios Daemon.
>So the vars are not available for everybody.

Using ps I can dump the environment of any/all processes by default
under linux (ps -auxew for example), so unless you are running a
security enhanced linux that restricts that, any user on the system
can see the environment including passwords.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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