Why is my password being passed as a command line parameter to the initialize and retrieval programs?
In the Windows and OS X installer and recovery GUIs we have the user, by default, specify their password within a dialog box. This password is then passed as a command-line parameter to the appropriate Adeona executable. This could mean, for some system configurations, that the password might show up in the clear in a system log, when running `ps’, etc. We recognize this is not a best practice, security-wise, however we made this the default because of the significant usability benefits for those not comfortable with command lines and the envisioned single-user machine common-case usage scenario. There is a simple work-around. For the installation process, enter some irrelevant password (e.g. “password”) into the appropriate password dialog boxes. This will cause adeona to be initialized with this password. The installation process is set to run the client so follow the instructions in the Readme.txt file on how to stop it. Then, from the Adeona installation directory, run the command
