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author | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2014-04-12 20:06:30 +0200 |
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committer | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2014-04-12 20:06:30 +0200 |
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Use pipefail and randomize intermediate encrypted.1.5
Matthew writes:
If the initial decrypt fails then the rest of the line shouldn't
continue, as it won't be a properly decrypted password being
re-encrypted and written over the existing passfile.
One solution to this would be to enable pipefail (set -o pipefail) -
either just before, or at the start of this script. This would
cause the failure of any of the commands in a pipe to set the return
status of the whole pipeline to non-zero (the last failed command's
return code is used).
We take his suggestion with this patch. While we're at it, we take a
little bit extra care (though not too much extra care) to select a more
random intermediate password, in case folks have a strange habit of
using a dot-new extension on files.
Suggested-by: Matthew Richardson <m.richardson@ed.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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