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

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Thu Apr 1 12:48:39 UTC 2021


On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 02:02:01PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> 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`

NACK, hunter2 is preferrable.

Regards,
Erik




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