[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] saquery: --smkey command line option

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 20:53 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 04:33 Tue 27 May     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > 
> > > Maybe yes, but could you be more specific? Store SMKey in read-only
> > > file on a client side?
> > 
> > Treat smkey as su treats password rather than a command line parameter
> > is another alternative.
> 
> Ok, let's do it as '--smkey X' and then saquery will ask for a value,
> just like su does. Good?

Works for me.

> > > I'm not proposing to expose SM_Key, just added such option where this
> > > key could be specified.
> > 
> > How is that not exposing it ?
> 
> Because (1) and (2) below.

The original patch exposes the key when the option is invoked and that's
just the time to hide it.

-- Hal

> Sasha
> 
> > 
> > -- Hal
> > 
> > >  So: 1) this is *optional*, 2) there is no
> > > suggestions about how the right value should be determined.
> > > 
> > > Sasha
> >