> On 14 May 2019, at 03:49, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> I propose a new option $SUBJECT so that users can at least add a level of
> indirection and put the password in a file.
+1, seems like a reasonable option to give.
> Draft patch attached.
I might be a bit thick, but this is somewhat hard to parse IMO:
+ File containing the password for user to bind to the directory with to
+ perform the search when doing search+bind authentication
To add a little bit more security around this, does it make sense to check (on
unix filesystems) that the file isn’t world readable/editable?
+ fd = OpenTransientFile(path, O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd < 0)
+ return -1;
cheers ./daniel
