[PATCH consfigurator v3 7/8] introduce the pass data store.

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sun 13 Mar 2022 at 11:40am -03, David Bremner wrote:

> IDEN1 is mapped to a containing directory beneath a user defined pass(1)
> store, and IDEN2 completes path to a gpg encrypted file.

'the' or 'a' missing before 'path', I think?

> diff --git a/src/data/pass.lisp b/src/data/pass.lisp
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..e9e7ae6
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/src/data/pass.lisp
> +
> +For retrieving user account passwords, IDEN1 can be a valid hostname or
> +`--user-passwd-HOST' where HOST is a valid hostname, and IDEN2 the username.
> +Otherwise, IDEN1 should begin with '_' (see the 'Prerequisite Data' section of
> +the Consfigurator user's manual).  In the latter case, if the concatenated
> +path does not exist in the password store then the search is tried again after
> +dropping the '_'.  This means that while user consfigs should always prefix
> +any IDEN1 that is not a valid hostname with `_', existing pass(1) entries do

... not a valid hostname or of the form `--user-passwd-HOST' ...

-- 
Sean Whitton