Hi all,

pyhoca-cli is a Python command-line client for X2go based on
python-x2go. Initially there was a --password option with the script
that allowed to script X2go session and pass-on a cleartext password.
Heinz made me aware of the security breach concerning clear text
passwords at the command-line (ps aux | grep --password, I complete
was unaware of that at that time... ashame...). On his request I had
removed the option from the code, immediately.

However, inspired bei the rdesktop command (which allows a --password
cmd arg) I added code to pyhoca-cli that allows to give --password at
the command line or from within scripts without risking security (I
hope). pyhoca-cli now rewrites the process title as shown in ps aux
output and replaces the actual password by "XXXXXXX".

I would be greatful if someone with Python knowlegde could cross-check
the following commits:

http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=pyhoca-cli.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ec0c5db1f8eb5c0... http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=pyhoca-cli.git;a=commitdiff;h=bdf71da2a41cbcd0...

Thanks, Mike

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