[Freeipa-devel] Setting Host OTP

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Thu Jul 28 17:53:06 UTC 2011


Jenny Galipeau wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Jenny Galipeau wrote:
>>> Hi Adam and Rob:
>>> I have some questions about setting a Host OTP and what use cases
>>> should be supported. In testing the Web UI and setting the OTP for a
>>> host, it became apparent that their is now way to retrieve an
>>> existing OTP. Is this on purpose? It confused me a bit that the UI
>>> did not change to indicate that an OTP existed. I think this is a
>>> bug.
>>>
>>> Also, is it on purpose that you can not retrieve and existing OTP?
>>> Else, you would need to set a new one if you could not remember what
>>> it was? If it is the later, I would think the Web UI could indicate
>>> that one is set, but changing the button maybe to "Set New OTP"??
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Jenny
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it is on purpose that you can't retrieve an existing OTP, it is a
>> password after all.
>>
>> There is no way to know if a password has been set or not. Please open
>> a
>> bug if you'd like to be able to tell.
>
> Okay, obviously this would mean addition flag to the CLI yes??

We would represent it as an attribute on output, there wouldn't be any 
options changes for this.

rob




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