working with launchpad behind an authenticating proxy

[Martin Pool]

On 11 April 2012 18:33, Denys Duchier <denys.duchier at univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
> a variable in the environment is precisely NOT private (all processes
> can look at their environment).  a password in a file is not much more
> private, but at least it is tucked away.

I might be wrong, but I thought that on modern unix, the environment
can only be read from processes running under the same uid.  That
seems true here on Ubuntu (I realize N=1).

-- 
Martin