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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-07-18 00:02:43 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190718000243-okz4s9xao1r1tfnx
Document bug in mandos-keygen which strips white space from passwords

Passwords, as read by mandos-keygen when given the --password or -p
options, are stripped of white space from the start and from the end
of the password.  This is because mandos-keygen is a shell script, and
the Bourne Shell "read" builtin does not seem to have a way to avoid
this.  Document this bug.

* manods-keygen.xml (OPTIONS): Document the white space-stripping
                               nature of the --password/-p option, and
                               also note in the description of
                               --passfile and -F that they avoid this
                               behavior.
  (BUGS): Again mention the problem with the --password and -p
          options, and suggest --passfile as a possible workaround.

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# Contact the authors at <mandos@recompile.se>.
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VERSION="1.8.14"
 
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VERSION="1.8.4"
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KEYDIR="/etc/keys/mandos"
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KEYTYPE=RSA
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                echo "Passphrase mismatch" >&2
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                touch "$RINGDIR"/mismatch
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            else
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                printf "%s" "$first"
 
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                echo -n "$first"
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            fi
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        fi | gpg --quiet --batch --no-tty --no-options --enable-dsa2 \
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            --homedir "$RINGDIR" --trust-model always --armor \