How to hide your password while configuring yum

I am trying to configure proxy in yum.conf, specifying proxy_password. I would like to hide my开发者_开发知识库 proxy_password. I understand that I can use read -es, but I don't want to put it in any variable also.

Please recommend.

Thanks, Ajay.

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You could use the include facility to put the proxy_password setting in a file with protected permissions.