Secure Passwords in Memory

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

I searched DejaNews and found some similar topics, but nothing
which really answered my question. I need to get the root
password from the user to exec a program which requires root
privileges. I would like to immediately zero out the memory used
to store the password.

This is easy in a language such as C, but i don't want to write a
module just for this. I doubt 'del pw' or

for i in range(len(pw)):
    pw[i] = 0

will work.

-- 
Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg at progenylinux.com
Software Developer
Progeny Linux Systems - http://progenylinux.com

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