From a7a16272b124b127ac964f128d39bcb59a7f5714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Crittenden Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:06:25 -0400 Subject: When reading a password, if there is no tty, read from stdin instead. This will allow one to pipe a password in: echo -e "secret123\secret123\n" | ipa password someuser --- ipalib/cli.py | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'ipalib') diff --git a/ipalib/cli.py b/ipalib/cli.py index 1e77657d3..362da18ef 100644 --- a/ipalib/cli.py +++ b/ipalib/cli.py @@ -393,14 +393,26 @@ class textui(backend.Backend): raw_input(self.encode(prompt)) ) + def read_password(self, label): + """ + Read a password either by prompting the user or from stdin depending + on whether there is a tty. + + This will let you do something like: echo -e "foo\nfoo\n" | ipa passwd + """ + if sys.stdin.isatty(): + return getpass.getpass(label) + else: + return sys.stdin.readline().strip() + def prompt_password(self, label): """ Prompt user for a password. """ try: while True: - pw1 = getpass.getpass('%s: ' % label) - pw2 = getpass.getpass( + pw1 = self.read_password('%s: ' % label) + pw2 = self.read_password( _('Enter %(label)s again to verify: ') % dict(label=label) ) if pw1 == pw2: -- cgit