[libvirt PATCH] docs: secret: do not use a valuable password

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Thu Apr 1 12:02:01 UTC 2021


Our website displays "**** ******" as the example password.
Despite its tradition rooted in 18th century French literature,
we cannot assume it to be public.

Use a random string of letters and numbers instead.

Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>
---
 docs/formatsecret.html.in | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/formatsecret.html.in b/docs/formatsecret.html.in
index 9dc9cdf288..19613cb5dc 100644
--- a/docs/formatsecret.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatsecret.html.in
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Secret value set
     </p>
 
     <pre>
-# MYSECRET=`printf %s "open sesame" | base64`
+# MYSECRET=`printf %s "dQw4w9WgXcQ" | base64`
 # virsh secret-set-value 6dd3e4a5-1d76-44ce-961f-f119f5aad935 $MYSECRET
 Secret value set
     </pre>
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