don't display capabilities without user explicitly asking for it #2331

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leif · 2014-11-19T05:35:25Z

leif commented

2014-11-19 05:35:25 +00:00

Displaying secrets on the screen is undesirable if you aren't sure your screen isn't being viewed by a hostile camera.

There are several tahoe CLI commands that do this, all of which are commands that I'd like to be able to run without displaying capabilities:

list-aliases
put
backup -v

Without -v, there is no indication of the backup command's progress. #1748 is the ticket about adding a progress bar, but it would also be useful to be able to use -v to see what is going on without printing secrets to the screen.

I suggest that all of these commands should get a new --show-caps option, and should not show capabilities when that option is not used.

Displaying secrets on the screen is undesirable if you aren't sure your screen isn't being viewed by a hostile camera. There are several tahoe CLI commands that do this, all of which are commands that I'd like to be able to run without displaying capabilities: * list-aliases * put * backup -v Without -v, there is no indication of the backup command's progress. #1748 is the ticket about adding a progress bar, but it would also be useful to be able to use -v to see what is going on without printing secrets to the screen. I suggest that all of these commands should get a new --show-caps option, and should not show capabilities when that option is not used.