Bug 1426058

Summary:	[RFE] request to provide option "--password" for virt-who-password command
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Eko <hsun>
Component:	virt-who	Assignee:	Chris Snyder <csnyder>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Eko <hsun>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Yehuda Zimmerman <yzimmerm>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.4	CC:	csnyder, jherrman, khowell, sgao, shihliu, tselios.petros, yuefliu
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Password options added to virt-who-password With this update, the "-p" and "--password" options have been added to the virt-who-password utility. This enables the utility to be used in scripts.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2017-08-01 19:24:47 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Eko 2017-02-23 06:46:16 UTC

Description of problem:
some customers want to use virt-who-password in their scripts, but it doesn't support interact, no "-p" or "--password" options, 

please refer to this commit by Marek: 
https://github.com/virt-who/virt-who/commit/5f49a9febd9fc6109afa0250e31bd5efcfecd8e9


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  run virt-who-password with --password or -p
# virt-who-password --password admin
Password:

Comment 2 Eko 2017-03-15 02:11:20 UTC

*** Bug 1406721 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Eko 2017-03-28 05:09:29 UTC

it's fixed in virt-who-0.19-1, should change the status to ON_QA and add it to errata list.


# virt-who-password --help
Usage: virt-who-password

Utility that encrypts passwords for virt-who.

Enter password that should be encrypted. This encrypted password then can be
supplied to virt-who configuration.

This command must be executed as root!

WARNING: root user can still decrypt encrypted passwords!
    
Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD
                        Password

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 19:24:47 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2084