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You do NOT save passwords in shell history, it is insanely insecure. Lets begin with the passwords being readable by everything that can list tasks.

You can protect passwords in a password manager. You do not need to keep the passwords in env and I do not.





> Lets begin with the passwords being readable by everything that can list tasks.

Why are processes running that can do this, that I don't already fully trust?

> You can protect passwords in a password manager.

What's your plan for supplying the password to the program, given that people will want to automate use of the program?




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