Document issues surrounding bug #990.

passing the password on the command line

diff --git a/docs/manual/pools.tex b/docs/manual/pools.tex
index 399664853fd30834a949700eff1538b8774ba829..10217f846897b252408ae3c260b153e31e96061a 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/pools.tex
+++ b/docs/manual/pools.tex
@@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ Job {
   Messages = Standard
   Pool = Default
   # This creates an ASCII copy of the catalog
+  # WARNING!!! Passing the password via the command line is insecure.
+  # see comments in make_catalog_backup for details.
   RunBeforeJob = "/home/bacula/bin/make_catalog_backup bacula bacula"
   # This deletes the copy of the catalog
   RunAfterJob  = "/home/bacula/bin/delete_catalog_backup"

diff --git a/docs/manual/postgresql.tex b/docs/manual/postgresql.tex
index b59a8d4e2c959190ac753f4843223db93579742f..88ee31fe344cb920b85d30e3d47153e6106656a3 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/postgresql.tex
+++ b/docs/manual/postgresql.tex
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ password in place, these two lines should look something like:
 \begin{verbatim}
   dbname = bacula; user = bacula; password = "secret"
     ... and ...
+ # WARNING!!! Passing the password via the command line is insecure.
+ # see comments in make_catalog_backup for details.
   RunBeforeJob = "/etc/make_catalog_backup bacula bacula secret"
 \end{verbatim}
 \normalsize

diff --git a/docs/manual/strategies.tex b/docs/manual/strategies.tex
index c3eaed624ae524aaa86fdad42aebe5180df0bb2b..ed2172cb2fd94f7010e5f834d2666c2aa9f692a5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/strategies.tex
+++ b/docs/manual/strategies.tex
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ Job {
   Messages = Standard
   Pool = Default
  # This creates an ASCII copy of the catalog
+ # WARNING!!! Passing the password via the command line is insecure.
+ # see comments in make_catalog_backup for details.
   RunBeforeJob = "/usr/lib/bacula/make_catalog_backup -u bacula"
  # This deletes the copy of the catalog, and ejects the tape
   RunAfterJob  = "/etc/bacula/end_of_backup.sh"