Re: Monitor commands related to display server passwords

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 02:25:53PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> > In 6.0 I introduced support for 'password-secret' to SPICE and VNC
> > command line.
> >
> > I don't know why, but I only deprecated 'password' in SPICE and
> > not in VNC.
> 
> I figure you mean
> 
>     ``-spice password=string`` (since 6.0)
>     ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> 
>     This option is insecure because the SPICE password remains visible in
>     the process listing. This is replaced by the new ``password-secret``
>     option which lets the password be securely provided on the command
>     line using a ``secret`` object instance.
> 
> and -vnc password=...
> 
> There's also -iscsi password=..., and possibly more.

Oh, iSCSI already has password-secret=, so yeah, we should
deprecate the old way there too.

Basically I want nothing in QMP/CLI to accept passwords,
everything must use the 'secret' objects.


> > I didn't wire up any QMP commands todo live password changes. If
> > the display was already configured with 'password-secret', you
> > could delete and re-create the existing named secret object
> > using object-add/object-del, since we fetch the secret value
> > on every auth check.
> 
> Is this behavior documented?

I don't believe so


With regards,
Daniel
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