On Thu Apr 19 18:01:38 2007, samj...@gmail.com wrote: > Dear sirs, > > I have been using openssl for some personal home-use encryption, and > recently overwrote an input file while using openssl bf accidentally > because bash's autocompletion put in the input file's name when I > started typing the same name (minus bf at the end) for the output and I > carelessly hit enter. > > For me it was not a big issue since those files were recoverable from > elsewhere but there are probably people using openssl for more important > things and they might have a serious problem if such a thing happened. > > So I request that openssl bf and other such openssl commands must check > whether the input and output filenames are same and in such case give > the user a warning and ask whether the user wants the output file to > have the same name by deleting the input file after processing. > > If yes, then use a temporary file name till processing is done and then > delete the input file and do something like mv tempfile origfile. > > If no, then abort. > > Since this is not a technical problem but an interface feature request I > did not include the make report output etc (since I am using a pre-built > openssl from my distro). > > Thank you. > > Shriramana Sharma.
I keep revisiting this (age old, sorry about that) issue time and again, and I think the proper response is to reject this as a usage issue rather than an inherent bug in OpenSSL command line. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte levi...@openssl.org -- Ticket here: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1520 Please log in as guest with password guest if prompted -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
