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

Mimi, Stefan,

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 05:37:35PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:

[Cc: Vitaly]

On Tue, 2021-08-10 at 09:45 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:

quoted

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.

I did not receive this patch nor it's in the git.

Thanks,

thanks,

Mimi