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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2021-07-22 15:20:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2021-07-24 15:50:38 -0700 |
| commit | 7b0c6d72899a5946b1fbc4c495de4b1458e72779 (patch) | |
| tree | 198c0794d0b6f303ed28454cbeb2fd4fba565ce9 /doc | |
| parent | 07827bd9141d96ef89d05ba7f2596242ef0b6e27 (diff) | |
| download | consfigurator-7b0c6d72899a5946b1fbc4c495de4b1458e72779.tar.gz | |
:SUDO: ensure that stdin is a pipe, never a real file
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
(cherry picked from commit 56dda681a644833f9b7de1775b7d193fd120bb8e)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/connections.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/connections.rst b/doc/connections.rst index 58b8dfe..be3ed80 100644 --- a/doc/connections.rst +++ b/doc/connections.rst @@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ Consfigurator sends your sudo password on stdin, so if the assumption that a password is required is violated, your sudo password will end up in the stdin to whatever command is being run using sudo. There is no facility for directly passing in a passphrase; you must use ``:AS`` to obtain passwords -from sources of prerequisite data. +from sources of prerequisite data. The passphrase will be written to a +private temporary file which is deleted when the ``:SUDO`` connection is torn +down. If any connection types which start up remote Lisp images occur before a ``:SUDO`` entry in your connection chain, ``ESTABLISH-CONNECTION`` will need |