[pca] Asking for MOS authentication

[Jeff Blaine]

There's no reason for --askauth (which is what I assume
-a was).

If MOS login is needed, pca will prompt you for your
information just as if --askauth had been used.

On 10/31/2011 3:44 PM, Fred wrote:
> I miss the -a command line option option for pca.
>
> When it comes to providing the MOS password I do not want the password
> stored cleartext in a config file, and I don't want it used on the
> command line where it can be read in the shell's command line history.
>
> I use pca on servers that connect to a local caching proxy. I used to
> run 'pca -i -a missing' to patch a system, but since the -a option was
> deprecated I seem to have lost the ability to transmit my MOS auth
> credentials to the proxy server without using --user=, --passwd=.
>
> Unless there's another way to do this (and there very well may be), how
> about if --user is specified without a matching --passwd, the password
> is prompted for on the shell before proceeding?
>
> --
> Fred Chagnon
> fchagnon at gmail.com <mailto:fchagnon at gmail.com>