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authorDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>2022-12-01 04:08:07 -0500
committerDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>2023-02-15 11:01:04 -0500
commit610783cb6e47ccf0c3cde94dcb03dff2ae22107c (patch)
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block: deprecate iSCSI 'password' in favour of 'password-secret'
Support for referencing secret objects was added in commit b189346eb1784df95ed6fed610411dbf23d19e1f Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Date: Thu Jan 21 14:19:21 2016 +0000 iscsi: add support for getting CHAP password via QCryptoSecret API The existing 'password' option is overdue for deprecation and subsequent removal. Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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@@ -301,6 +301,14 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format::
json:{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"}
+``iscsi,password=xxx`` (since 8.0)
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Specifying the iSCSI password in plain text on the command line using the
+``password`` option is insecure. The ``password-secret`` option should be
+used instead, to refer to a ``--object secret...`` instance that provides
+a password via a file, or encrypted.
+
Backwards compatibility
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