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authorintrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>2005-08-20 15:37:57 +0000
committerintrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>2005-08-20 15:37:57 +0000
commit6b6154879b591c79750b329f3ecce9a074de5cb3 (patch)
tree31d53c48c1d172bb423d7ce9f4420a2a730fb133
parentbfe530dc59b9cec4a0cbdfdaafb5addb0e4484b2 (diff)
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Security fix: duplicity handler used to put the gpg passphase on the command line.
-rw-r--r--etc/backup.d/example.dup3
-rw-r--r--handlers/dup10
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/etc/backup.d/example.dup b/etc/backup.d/example.dup
index 37ca92e..cd64dd5 100644
--- a/etc/backup.d/example.dup
+++ b/etc/backup.d/example.dup
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ nicelevel = 19
[gpg]
# passphrase needed to unlock the GnuPG key
-password = "a_very_complicated_passphrase"
+# NB: do not quote it, and it should not contain any quote
+password = a_very_complicated_passphrase
# default is no, for backward compatibility with backupninja <= 0.5.
# when set to yes, encryptkey option must be set below.
diff --git a/handlers/dup b/handlers/dup
index 22f915f..176ac3e 100644
--- a/handlers/dup
+++ b/handlers/dup
@@ -131,17 +131,17 @@ execstr=${execstr//\\*/\\\\\\*}
debug "duplicity $execstr --exclude '**' / $execstr_serverpart"
if [ ! $test ]; then
+ export PASSPHRASE=$password
output=`nice -n $nicelevel \
su -c \
- "export PASSPHRASE=$password \
- && duplicity $execstr --exclude '**' / $execstr_serverpart 2>&1"`
+ "duplicity $execstr --exclude '**' / $execstr_serverpart 2>&1"`
code=$?
- if [ "$code" == "0" ]; then
+ if [ $code -eq 0 ]; then
debug $output
info "Duplicity finished successfully."
else
- warning $output
- warning "Duplicity failed."
+ debug $output
+ fatal "Duplicity failed."
fi
fi