[jira] [Comment Edited] (ACCUMULO-1412) Allow shell password to come from a variety of sources

["Christopher Tubbs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christopher Tubbs edited comment on ACCUMULO-1412 at 6/12/13 8:26 PM:
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Patch [^ACCUMULO-1412-v1.patch] depends on the v3 patch from ACCUMULO-1478, applies to trunk with {{-p1}}.

This patch allows users to specify the value to {{--password}} as any of the following:
* pass:<password>
* file:<local file>
* env:<environment variable>
* stdin

The design is extensible for future implementations, as I know [~ctubbsii] had expressed an interest in wiring it to gnome-keyring.
                
      was (Author: mdrob):
    Patch [^ACCUMULO-1412-v1.patch] depends on the v3 patch from ACCUMULO-1478, applies to trunk with {{-p1}}.

This patch allows users to specify the value to {{--password}} as any of the following:
* pass:[password]
* file:[local file]
* env:[environment variable]
* stdin

The design is extensible for future implementations, as I know [~ctubbsii] had expressed an interest in wiring it to gnome-keyring.
                  
> Allow shell password to come from a variety of sources
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-1412
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1412
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: shell
>            Reporter: Mike Drob
>            Assignee: Mike Drob
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.6.0
>
>         Attachments: ACCUMULO-1412-v1.patch
>
>
> OpenSSL allows the user to read the password from a number of places, including a file, environment variable, file descriptor, command line argument, or standard in. It would be nice for accumulo to do the same, to ease scripting while still not revealing password through {{ps}} or it's brethren.
> A logical way to implement this might be using a [JCommander Custom Type|http://jcommander.org/#Custom_types] for the password field.

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