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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c ifconfig.h
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Sam Leffler wrote:

>>   Add a new flag '-k' to ifconfig(8), indicating that it is alright to
>>   print potentially sensitive keying material to stdout.  With the new
>>   802.11 support, ifconfig(8) is now capable of printing 802.11 keys,
>>   and did by default for the root user, which is undesirable in some
>>   environments.  Now it will not print keying material unless requested
>>   (and available to the user).
>
> I thought we'd agreed NOT to do this.

Remind me what we'd agreed should be done?  Printing the 802.11 key on the 
console during boot is undesirable.  I recollect vaguely we had thought 
about removing printing the key entirely, only it struck me this was 
actually a useful feature, so "-k" allows you to do that.  Especially 
since we are trying to avoid forcing people to use wicontrol, etc.

Robert N M Watson