From: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox Backup Server development discussion
<pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pbs-devel] [PATCH backup v3 1/2] pbs-client: read credentials from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:06:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8728c4b8-b2ee-46d3-8cfb-014e24042251@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250326105142.146486-1-m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
Am 26.03.25 um 11:51 schrieb Maximiliano Sandoval:
> Allows to load credentials passed down by systemd. A possible use-case
> is safely storing the server's password in a file encrypted by the
> systems TPM, e.g. via
>
> ```
> systemd-ask-password -n | systemd-creds encrypt --name=proxmox-backup-client.password - my-api-token.cred
> ```
>
> which then can be used via
>
> ```
> systemd-run --pipe --wait --property=LoadCredentialEncrypted=proxmox-backup-client.password:my-api-token.cred \
> proxmox-backup-client ...
> ```
>
> or from inside a service.
I lightly skimmed over the code, looks alright to me (feel free to apply
@Wolfgang), but I'm missing a patch for the documentation so that users
can know about this possibility – can be followed up though.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-26 10:51 Maximiliano Sandoval
2025-03-26 10:51 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH backup v3 2/2] pbs-client: make get_secret_from_env private Maximiliano Sandoval
2025-03-26 11:06 ` Thomas Lamprecht [this message]
2025-03-26 12:00 ` [pbs-devel] applied-series: [PATCH backup v3 1/2] pbs-client: read credentials from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY Wolfgang Bumiller
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