On Friday, November 16, 2012 11:17:23 AM UTC-6, Alex Stanhope wrote: > > On Friday, November 16, 2012 5:11:22 PM UTC, Ellison Marks wrote: > >> Could you give some more info on what you're trying to accomplish with >> this? That way we might offer some ideas to help. >> > > Of course. I use a temporary file to store a private key passphrase. > That passphrase is used to allow the client machine to load the private > key, and clone repositories from github. After puppet has installed the > client machine, I'd like it to delete this temporary file, so that future > logins prompt the user for the password. It's not the end of the world to > leave it there, or for me to clean it up manually. I know I could use > passwordless private keys, but I think it's better security to have > passphrases on them. >
Can you not supply the passphrase directly to your 'git clone' command instead of storing it in a file? John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/UJfknU4WkEoJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
