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Re: [Monotone-devel] passphrase option
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] passphrase option |
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Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:37:26 +0200 (CEST) |
In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:58:31 -0600, Derek Scherger
<address@hidden> said:
derek> Carlos Hespanhol wrote:
derek> > I really need a passphrase option like
derek> > --passphrase=<passphrase> to automate the use of monotone.
derek>
derek> Is there some reason you can't use the lua hook function
derek> get_passphrase(key_id) to do what you want? See the hook
derek> reference section of the manual for more details on how this
derek> works.
I think both are terrible ideas from a security point of view.
Looking at the bugs page, I found an entry about adding something
similar to ssh-agent, something I like a bit better. Could that be
something to look more closely at?
(why --passphrase would be bad? Think 'ps auxwwwww'...)
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