Dear coreutils developers, I have read many tutorials, where a secret is written to a file, which is protected afterwards, like this:
``` generate_secret > keyfile chmod 0600 keyfile ``` I hope that the following approach would have been intuitive and more secure, as the keyfile was never readable: ``` generate_secret | install -x -m 0600 keyfile ``` where "-x" would indicate, that stdin shall be used as source. Please take "x" as a placeholder; any letter works for me. Do you like the idea to support stdin? Best regards, Lars
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