Bug 704297

Summary:	rhn-channel can only take the password leaking it to "ps auxw" and storing it in .bash_history
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Paul Wouters <pwouters>
Component:	rhn-client-tools	Assignee:	Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version:	5.5
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Description Paul Wouters 2011-05-12 17:34:24 UTC

Description of problem:
One cannot use rhn-channel -p to get prompted for the password.
So anyone who can see ps output or get to root's bash_history can
grab the rhn-channel user/password

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-33.el5_5.2

This is a security risk

Comment 1 Milan Zázrivec 2011-05-13 07:05:35 UTC

This issue will be addressed with the release of RHEL-5.7.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 641029 ***