From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC OSSTEST 02/19] Osstest/PDU: Add
 eth008.pm method to control the ARM rack PDU
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:05:46 +0100
Message-ID: <1412949946.27111.23.camel@citrix.com>
References: <1412942404.27111.12.camel@citrix.com>
	<1412942554-752-2-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
	<21559.58758.7736.560901@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org>
In-Reply-To: <21559.58758.7736.560901@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
List-Help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>,
	<mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xen.org?subject=subscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 14:56 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH RFC OSSTEST 02/19] Osstest/PDU: Add eth008.pm method to control the ARM rack PDU"):
> > This controls the eth008 relay board: http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/eth008tech.htm
> > 
> > Due to the use of the CGI interface this requires firmware version 4+.
> 
> In the future we are likely to want to have more community members
> working with osstest and that probably means we want to have a less
> juicy `inside' to our network.
> 
> That probably means nontrivial passwords, but it also probably means
> we'll want to stop passing passwords on command lines.
> 
> > +    my $url = "http://$mo->{PDU}/io.cgi?$op$mo->{Port}=0";
> > +    my $cmd = "curl --silent --user $mo->{User}:$mo->{Pass} $url";
> 
> Is there a way to do this where the password goes in a file or via an
> fd ?

There's --netrc which looks in ~/.netrc (or use --netrc-file).

> I'm tempted to suggest that you should use the non-CGI interface and
> get the firewall fixed...

Probably easiest to do it as part of the move, when we (I pressume) gain
control over the f/w, if any, between control host and test machines?

I could code it as an option for now if you like.

Ian.