[PATCH] Re: MKPasswd idempotency patch

[grub-devel]

Hello,

just wanted to ask, if this patch got unnoticed, or if I just have to wait a 
bit longer for a response.
This is my first time submitting a patch to the grub project, so please bear 
with me ;-)

Best,
Klaus Frank

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 12:01:12PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to use grub-mkpasswd inside of a ansible playbook, therefore a 
> idempotency or check feature is required.
> Without it, there is no posibility to verify, that the configuration is 
> already inplace.
> Therefore I want to suggest implementing the attached changes.
> The simplest one I was thinking of, is grub-mkpasswd allowing to specify a 
> salt and comparing the results.
> My patch also introduces a quiet mode, that basically suppresses all prompts 
> and only expects the password to be entered/piped in once. It also changes 
> the output slightly to not inlcude the `PBKDF2 hash of your password is 
> `-part.
> 
> The patch is attached to this mail.
> 
> Best,
> Klaus Frank


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