Hi, I'm planning on committing this patch which adds support for a "K" kgkey environmental option to ipmitool (after updating the options list in the patch a bit to include latest options). Does anyone see any problems with this additional kgkey support?
Also, I'll be adding usage list support and man page support for this (and other recent) command line option. Thanks, Carol On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:21 -0600, Skywing wrote: > Hi, > > > > Some months ago, I hacked in a –K option to read the ipmi2 KGKEY from > the environment (“IPMI_KGKEY”) instead of the command line. This was > done as storing the key in the command line is non-secure on some > systems, since there’s a race condition that could allow a user to > read it from a ps-list (even if we tried to zero it out after we were > done with it). > > > > It is similar in principle to the option to read the ipmi user > password from the environment as opposed to the command line. > > > > The patch was made against 1.8.9, but I don’t think there’s an > equivalent option added in 1.8.10. If so, you can probably discard > this. > > > > I am sending the patch in as there’s the possibility that someone else > might find it useful. > > > > - S > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list > Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
