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Kurt Zeilenga 8de258d2e2 Patch: 'ldapmodify -y file' reads password from file (ITS#2031)
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Written by Hallvard B. Furuseth and placed into the public domain.
This software is not subject to any license of the University of Oslo.
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Adapted by Kurt Zeilenga for inclusion in OpenLDAP.  My comments are
marked with enclosed with square brackets (e.g. [Kurt's comment] below.
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If I run ldapmodify & co from a script, I don't want to use '-W password'
because the password shows up in the output of 'ps' for everyone,
and I can't pipe the password to 'ldapmodify -w' because -w uses
getpassphrase() which reads from the tty instead of stdin.
So I added '-y file' which reads the password from file.  The programs
exit if the file cannot be read.

[Complete contents of file is used as password.  Use:
	echo -n "secret" > password
to create a file with "secret" as the password.  The -n avoids
adding a newline (which would invalidate the password).  Note
that echo is a builtin and hence its arguments are not visible
to 'ps'.]

I changed ldapmodify, ldapmodrdn, ldapdelete, ldapsearch, ldapcompare.
I did not bother to change ldappasswd and ldapwhoami, because they
prompt for many passwords.  [I fixed up ldapwhoami.]

Rerun autoconf after applying this patch. [Done.]

Note:  I do not know if Windows NT has fstat(), so I set HAVE_FSTAT to
undef in portable.nt.  (fstat() is used to warn if the file is publicly
readable or writeable.)  [I used fstat() to set the buffer size to
read.]

[Note: using the contents of a file extends the tools to support
passwords which could not normally be provided using getpassphrase()
or via the command line.]

Hallvard B. Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>, Aug 2002.
[Kurt D. Zeilenga <kurt@openldap.org>, Aug 2002.]
2002-08-24 05:47:17 +00:00
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args Patch: 'ldapmodify -y file' reads password from file (ITS#2031) 2002-08-24 05:47:17 +00:00
README Add reference to developer's list 2001-06-08 01:38:40 +00:00
replication-notes.txt Replication notes 2001-12-08 07:35:48 +00:00
todo Add dumpasn1 logging to TODO. 2002-08-21 18:45:08 +00:00
utfconv.txt Add UTF-8 wc/mb conversion routines contributed by Novell. 2000-12-28 02:20:37 +00:00

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