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* The first time you submit it will ask you for your password.  After that, it will store a "one-time password" (which can be used as many times as you want for a given project) unencrypted in a text file called .submitUser in your project root directory.  414 Pop Quiz: is this good security?
 
* The first time you submit it will ask you for your password.  After that, it will store a "one-time password" (which can be used as many times as you want for a given project) unencrypted in a text file called .submitUser in your project root directory.  414 Pop Quiz: is this good security?
 
* Prior to version 1.6, Java did not have a way to avoid echoing characters to the console as you typed them.  If you run the command line submission tool, you may see the characters of your password briefly echoed to the screen, and then erased.  You don't need 414 to know that that's not good security.
 
* Prior to version 1.6, Java did not have a way to avoid echoing characters to the console as you typed them.  If you run the command line submission tool, you may see the characters of your password briefly echoed to the screen, and then erased.  You don't need 414 to know that that's not good security.
* Want to know how the submissions work under the hood, while not exposing your password or storing it in plaintext on your hard drive?  Check out [[Media:Msubmit.zip]].  Also interesting as an example of things that just shouldn't be done in shellcode.
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* Want to know how submissions work under the hood, while not exposing your password or storing it in plaintext on your hard drive, while removing the need for a .submit file?  Check out [[Media:Msubmit.zip]].  Also interesting as an example of things that just shouldn't be done in shellcode.
    
For less hard-core Unix hackers, see the [https://submit.cs.umd.edu:8443/docs/MarmosetHelp/StudentGuide/commandlinesubmission.html Marmoset command line submission documentation].
 
For less hard-core Unix hackers, see the [https://submit.cs.umd.edu:8443/docs/MarmosetHelp/StudentGuide/commandlinesubmission.html Marmoset command line submission documentation].
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