Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 4 authors, 2021-09-04

Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] evmctl: Implement support for EVMCTL_KEY_PASSWORD environment variable

From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2021-08-27 21:37:46

[Cc: Vitaly]

On Tue, 2021-08-10 at 09:45 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>

If the user did not use the --pass option to provide a key password,
get the key password from the EVMCTL_KEY_PASSWORD environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Thanks, Stefan.

Vitaly, I'm not sure that there's any benefit of using secure heap for
a password stored as an environment variable, but it needs to at least
be documented.

thanks,

Mimi
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