Issue #2744 has been updated by Daniel Pittman.

Assignee changed from Jacob Helwig to James Turnbull

Nick Lewis wrote:

> I'm concerned about the security implications of this. This diff could 
> potentially contain sensitive information which shouldn't necessarily be 
> published indiscriminately.

Concretely, that matters because the diff ... ?  Can you fill in the blank, so 
I don't answer my own guess about what your concern is?

> At the very least, making this change in a point release worries me, as I 
> would prefer a change with such a significant security impact be more 
> conspicuous.

That seems a reasonable concern, but we are somewhat committed by commercial 
customers - notably NYSE - who have demanded this feature for the 2.7 release.  
Nigel and James are the people to make the final call about where this lands, 
and how that plays with our promises to NYSE.
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Feature #2744: Provide an option to send back diff of txt files in reports
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2744

Author: Yimin Li
Status: In Topic Branch Pending Review
Priority: Normal
Assignee: James Turnbull
Category: reports
Target version: 2.7.x
Affected Puppet version: 0.24.8
Keywords: 
Branch: 


When a txt file get replaced, only md5 of the new file is sent back to server. 
If there is an option that can be enabled to send back diff between new file 
and old file, then you can know what get changes in the reports/mails.


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