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authorJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>1997-09-19 17:40:11 +0000
committerJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>1997-09-19 17:40:11 +0000
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smbclient.1: Added documentation of the username%password environment code.
smb.conf.5: Added 'username level' docs. Jeremy (jallison@whistle.com) (This used to be commit b588615b201fda404c09637b344e9823443ce396)
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@@ -257,6 +257,13 @@ If no
is supplied and neither environment variable exists the user name will
be empty.
+If the USER environment variable containts a '%' character, everything
+after that will be treated as a password. This allows you to set the
+environment variable to be
+.B USER=username%password
+so that a password is not passed on the command line (where it may
+be seen by the ps command).
+
If the service you are connecting to requires a password, it can be supplied
using the
.B \-U