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| author | Jakob Unterwurzacher | 2018-12-15 17:09:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Jakob Unterwurzacher | 2018-12-15 17:09:38 +0100 |
| commit | 295d432175292dbaef572093d784aab55f5c0b8f (patch) | |
| tree | d5db468806d211d0ea5bbd589dad3a0a337de714 /Documentation/MANPAGE.md | |
| parent | b29ee62749244d1985a71f8df37a1582d9e790c9 (diff) | |
passfile: directly read file instead of invoking cat
Allows better error handling, gets rid of the call to an
external program, and fixes https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/278 .
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/MANPAGE.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/MANPAGE.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/MANPAGE.md b/Documentation/MANPAGE.md index baadb25..5ebb0b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/MANPAGE.md +++ b/Documentation/MANPAGE.md @@ -262,8 +262,13 @@ you are using Go 1.6+. In mode "auto", gocrypts chooses the faster option. #### -passfile string -Read password from the specified file. This is a shortcut for -specifying '-extpass="/bin/cat -- FILE"'. +Read password from the specified file. A warning will be printed if there +is more than one line, and only the first line will be used. A single +trailing newline is allowed and does not cause a warning. + +Before gocryptfs v1.7, using `-passfile` was equivant to writing +`-extpass="/bin/cat -- FILE"`. +gocryptfs v1.7 and later directly read the file without invoking `cat`. #### -passwd Change the password. Will ask for the old password, check if it is |