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> > that runs "echo password | clog -pipe codausername".
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> do environment variables). One solution would be to have clog be able to read 
> a password from file.
Err, why not

	cat passwd4clog | clog -pipe codausername

with paranoid permissions on your passwd4clog ?

(If you get around the bootstrapping problem,
 you could even have the file on coda with 
 paranoid ACLs ...)

Yours,
Steffen