Master password

[arlukin]

• Investigate ssh-pass/ssh-agent, use that password?
• Use master password in .syco.cnf if it exist.
  /root/.syco.cnf
  master-password: xxxx
• Move password file to it's own file.
• Delete master password after 60 minutes with cronjob.
  Check file modify time to determine if 60 minuts has passed.
• Switch in syco that keeps the password for another 60 minutes.
  -k --keep-password -- Do that by touching the file.

[kribor]

If saving to disk I think we might as well save it to a ramdisk (tmpfs) to avoid leaving traces on disk.

[arlukin]

I guess a tmpfs would increase the scope of the issue. And I don't think this feature should be used in a production environment. But if it's their it will probably be used in a production env. So you might be right.

I hope Nemie can find something around her idé about using ssh-pass. But after a quick google yesterday, I think it's not possible.

[kribor]

I guess it would increase the scope somewhat but mounting a ramdisk is just a onliner similar to:
mount -t tmpfs -o size=512m tmpfs /mnt/ramdisk

[arlukin]

You are right. It's a pretty good idea. And if we like to, we can have a cronjob unmounting that partion istead of deleting the pasword file from /root/.syco.cnf. This is probably as easy as building the other solution.
Note to self: Remember how easy it is to mount a ramdisk.