On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:47:53AM +0100, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 26. November 2008, Ladislav Slezak wrote:
> > And of course, this won't help if Y2DEBUG is enabled. We would need a new
> > datatype or a flag in the interpreter to fix it with Y2DEBUG enabled.
> 
> I don't think this can be done in the general case: Both the YCP interpreter 
> and the UI are logging entire statements or statement snippets. You can never 
> tell what part of that might contain confidential data like passwords.
> 
> Example:
> 
> UI::OpenDialog(`VBox(..., `Password( _( "Password:" ), "b1g*s3cr3t", ...);
> 
> In full debug mode, the YCP interpreter will write this to the log, and if 
> there is a YCP or a UI syntax error or another UI exception, the offending 
> statement (which might easily contain something like the above example) will 
> be logged.

A nice feature would be to tell YCP that a string is a password
and thus the string is never logged.

ciao Arvin

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