On Tue, 5 May 2009 06:22:01 -0400 Kevin Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > tahoe ls <(head -1 bunch-of-tahoe-caps.txt)
Cool! I didn't know that syntax existed, and that it can appear to the application as just another filename. Thanks! On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:45:09 -0600 Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: > Ooh, that's interesting. What do you think, Brian -- is Kevin's > idea potentially as useful as the aliases feature? Well, to be honest, I don't think so. I mean, isn't this what ~/.tahoe/private/aliases is for? It's a world-unreadable file that holds aliases, there's a well-defined and non-ambiguous method to translate a (secure,human-memorable,ambiguous) non-secret ARGV string into a specific (secure,non-memorable,non-ambiguous) secret dircap, and there is a mechanism ('tahoe create-alias ALIAS', or 'tahoe mkdir ; vi ~/.tahoe/private/aliases') to get a secret string in there without ever exposing it to ARGV. Pulling secrets out of files with shell syntax is great to have available, but if you were to use it for any length of time, you'd probably start looking for a way to automate it and make it easier to use, and I think you'd end up with something that looks a lot like our existing alias mechanism. cheers, -Brian _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
