On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:41:00 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 1/24/20 10:08 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
Discourage passing secrets as commandline arguments.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> --- docs/formatsecret.html.in | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
+ <h2><a id="settingSecrets">Setting secret values in virsh</a></h2> +
+ </pre> + + <p> + The secret can also be set via an argument, but note that other users + may see it in the process listing output. The secret must be base64 + encoded.
Is this last sentence still accurate, given that you can pass --plain to avoid base64 encoding?
I didn't allow to use --plain together with passing it on the command line. --plain works only in conjunction with --file. I didn't see a point of adding new features to an insecure way of doing things.
Should the note use <b> or other formatting to call attention to the security risk of doing it this way?
Yeah, I can add it.