Bug#831296: Please allow reading password from elsewhere

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at debian.org> [2016-07-15 14:47 +0200]:
> this actually does show up in argv, because bash replaces the output of
> cat on the cmdline before exec'ing the command.
> 
> what you'd really like is to be able to read the password from a file or
> a file descriptor.
> 
> If it's from a file, then in bash you can do:
> 
>  --password-file <(echo s3cr3t)

What in the world was I thinking???

Thanks for the catch and the --pw-file hint. Unfortunately, stable's
hdav does not have --password-file, and neither does 1.2 in
unstable, it seems.

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