Re: [PATCH 3/4] virsh: secret: Allow setting secrets from file

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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 04:42:43PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
The necessity to specify the secret value as command argument is
insecure. Allow reading the secret from a file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/manpages/virsh.rst |  5 +++--
tools/virsh-secret.c    | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/manpages/virsh.rst b/docs/manpages/virsh.rst
index fcc8ef6758..992b1daf90 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/virsh.rst
+++ b/docs/manpages/virsh.rst
@@ -6558,10 +6558,11 @@ secret-set-value

.. code-block::

-   secret-set-value secret base64
+   secret-set-value secret (--file filename | base64)

Set the value associated with *secret* (specified by its UUID) to the value
-Base64-encoded value *base64*.
+Base64-encoded value *base64* or from file named *filename*. Note that *--file*
+and *base64* options are mutually exclusive.


secret-passwd

Please include a way to read the secret from an EBCDIC-encoded file,
just for completeness.

Jano

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