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Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum nits
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 02:31:52 -0500
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> There's probably a good reason why this was changed, but
> in earlier versions of factotum, the lines that you got
> from reading /mnt/factotum/ctl could be written back to
> that file with 'del' prepended to delete keys.  Now there
> are attributes on the end of the line like '!password?'
> that cause factotum not to find the key to delete.  It
> would be nice if the format of 'delkey' lines written to
> the control file was the same as the format of 'key' lines
> read from there.

done.

we added the !foo? fields so that it was clear what wasn't
being shown.  it was unintentional that that broke the
delkey property.  i put in matching on private fields, so
that you can delkey !password? to remove all keys with
a !password field.  the only pattern allowed for a private
field is !private?.  that is, you can't say

	delkey !password=my.secret

since that would open up a nice dictionary attack.

russ