Re: Passing dar encryption passwords

On 08/01/2022 04:22, David Niklas wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 22:00:24 +0100
> Denis Corbin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 07/01/2022 17:33, David Niklas wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>
>> Hello David,
>>
>>> I'm using Dar 2.5.17.
>> whaoo, that's a not a recent one :) but no problem
> 
> It's on a soon to be updated Devuan (Debian) LTS distro.
> 

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>>> However, even with -J, I'm still getting prompted for a
>>> password to open the backup archive.
>>
>> Strange, it should not be the case. Maybe you have conditional
>> statements in your DCF file?
> 
> When you mentioned that, it occurred to me that I'm doing the
> conditionals by hand currently so I needed to change the -B option to the
> catalog file's name.
> 
> It's always those "right in front of your face" problems that are the
> hardest to fix.

Yes, I agree. An external point of view usually helps in that context.

> 
> Thanks again!
> David
> 

You are very welcome! Ant it's always nice to know when a problem is
resolved :) thanks for this feedback.

Wishing you a pleasant Debian update!

Cheers,
Denis