dogtagpki

#2840 pki cli command for Dogtag doesn't prompt for a password
Closed: fixed Opened by mharmsen.

Closed: fixed
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pki cli command for Dogtag doesn't prompt for a password

Steps to Reproduce:

# /bin/pki  -u <username> -U 'https://pki.example.com:8443/ca' user-find
Error: Missing user password.
# /bin/pki -U 'https://pki.example.com:8443/ca' -u <username> user-find
Error: Missing user password.

The man page and docs say this is supposed to prompt for a password

<snip>
Finally, if a username has been specified on the command-line,
and neither the '-W <client-side password file>' nor the '-w <password>'
options have been utilized, the password will be prompted for.
To authenticate with a username by interactively prompting for a password:
    pki -u <username> <command>
Note: Prompting for a user password is not suitable for automated batch processing.
</snip>

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- Issue set to the milestone: FUTURE

@mharmsen Which version are you using? I haven't seen this issue when using pki-tools-10.4.1-17.el7_4.x86_64

Per 10.5.x/10.6 Triage: FUTURE

edewata: already triaged. usability issue, but there's a workaround.

Metadata Update from @mharmsen:
- Issue set to the milestone: 10.6 (was: FUTURE)

Metadata Update from @mharmsen:
- Issue assigned to edewata
- Issue priority set to: critical
- Issue set to the milestone: 10.5 (was: 10.6)

The problem only happens in PKI 10.5 and 10.6.

Fixed in master branch:
* https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/22e405c2634452f25a71e6caf3a7fd1d895a1a2b

Fixed in 10.5 branch:
* https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/b1bda0a1e7baca575561c08e78d93ae7c7160738

Metadata Update from @edewata:
- Issue close_status updated to: fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

Metadata Update from @edewata:
- Issue set to the milestone: 10.5.13 (was: 10.5)

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