Re: feature request to support stdin in GNU install

2023-07-27 Thread Dröge , Lars
On 07/26/23 Rob Landley wrote: > On 7/26/23 17:32, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > Well /dev/stdin works for this. I.e. this works: > > > > echo secret | install -m 0600 /dev/stdin keyfile > > Yes, this works for me. Thank you. I accept this solution and hereby withdraw my feature request. > > Pr

Re: feature request to support stdin in GNU install

2023-07-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 7/26/23 17:32, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 26/07/2023 15:55, Dröge, Lars wrote: >> 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 >> ```

Re: feature request to support stdin in GNU install

2023-07-26 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 26/07/2023 15:55, Dröge, Lars wrote: 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 mo

feature request to support stdin in GNU install

2023-07-26 Thread Dröge , Lars
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 readab