Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone-server: empty passphrase from get_passphrase

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:18:10 -0700, "Shaun Jackman" 
<address@hidden> said:

sjackman> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure monotone-server
sjackman> [accept all the defaults]
sjackman> $ sudo /etc/init.d/monotone start
sjackman> Starting Monotone Server: monotone.
sjackman> $ cat /var/log/monotone/mtn.log
sjackman> mtn: misuse: got empty passphrase from get_passphrase() hook
sjackman> $ sudo cat /etc/monotone/passphrases
sjackman> address@hidden ""
sjackman> 
sjackman> This bug seems to be caused be running dpkg-reconfigure
sjackman> after installing monotone-server. It worked as expected
sjackman> after purging and reinstalling monotone-server.

I suspect that the following lines in debian/monotone-server.postinst
don't work quite right and result in an empty password:

           # read our passphrase from a file
           if [ -e "$MTN_CONFDIR/passphrases" ]; then
               db_set monotone-server/passphrase "`grep "$MTN_KEY" 
$MTN_CONFDIR/passphrases | awk -F ' "|" "|" |"' '{print $2}'`"
           fi

I'm not in a position to test that without destroying something for
the moment...

Cheers,
Richard

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