Securely Erasing Password in Memory (Python)
How do you store a password entered by the user in memory and erase it securely after it is no longer need?
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Is this Python code vulnerable to SQL injection? (SQLite3)
As the title suggests, I would like to know if this code is vulnerable to SQL Injection? And if so, is there a better, more secure, way of achieving the same thing?
How to use associative arrays safely inside arithmetic expressions?
A few Bourne-like shells support associative arrays: ksh93 (since 1993), zsh (since 1998), bash (since 2009), though with some differences in behaviour between the 3.
How does ping work on Fedora without setuid and capabilities?
As far as I know, ping needs to create a raw socket (which needs either root access or cap_net_raw capabilities).
Concern about logging in as root overrated?
For personal linux on my personal notebooks, I’ve usually set my environment to autologin as root even under X or lower runlevels. I’ve found my workflow is very pleasant and fast, without any cumbersome need to type su or sudo or being asked by keyring or auth or something.
Mutt: how to safely store password?
My .muttrc file looks something like this one or see below a glimpse. I am hesitant with the password. How should I store my password to use it with mutt?
How does curl protect a password from appearing in ps output?
I noticed some time ago that usernames and passwords given to curl as command line arguments don’t appear in ps output (although of course they may appear in your bash history).
How can you log every command typed
How can you log every command someone has entered into the shell?
How do I recursively shred an entire directory tree?
I have a directory tree that I would like to shred with the Linux ‘shred’ utility. Unfortunately, shred has no -R option for recursive shredding.
Log every invocation of every SUID program?
I would like to have a log file that contains an entry for every time a user runs any suid program, containing the user name, the program and any command line arguments passed to it. Is there a standard way to achieve this on Linux?