[winswitch] XPRA_PASSWORD and XPRA_ENCRYPTION_KEY ?

[Antoine Martin]

On 30/03/16 05:47, Michael Mayer wrote:
> Dear Antoine,
> 
> I was just about to explore the fixes for keyboard support in #1147
> (Thanks for this - looks good to me) when I discovered that the
> environment variables for PASSWORD and ENCRPYTION are gone. They were
> removed in r12099 and r11465. I can see the mention of "Legacy" and
> "security" in the change logs...
> 
> Before I am hacking something to get this working again - what is/was
> the exact reasoning for removing those environment variables ?
The code was a bit ugly and made validation harder.

> I quite like the fact that you can specify the password and encryption
> key on-demand in a session before launching xpra - Currently I store the
> password and encrpytion keys in a protected database and extract them
> on-demand to set them. That way I don't leave any trace on the storage
> backend (except in the db). Only the xpra logs are written.
OK, I'll try to re-enable the feature again.

Cheers
Antoine


> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Michael.
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