[Spacewalk-list] rhnpush and passwords...

[Robert Paschedag]

Don't supply the -p option. You will be prompted then.

Regards
Robert
Am 21.03.2016 00:19 schrieb Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>:
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> Hi,
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> Admittedly I'm new to the rpm-based distro, but it seems odd to me that you would have to explicitly have a password in a command. Specifically, rhnpush.
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> For eg:
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> rhnpush --server localhost -u admin -p --channel software-channel *.rpm
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> doesn't work. 
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> rhnpush --server localhost -u admin -p MyBigSecretDisplayedInHistory --channel software-channel *.rpm
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> does.
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> Surely it's simple enough to prompt if -p flag is seen, rather than fail on missing password?
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> Am I missing something here?
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> L.
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