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feature request to support stdin in GNU install
From: |
Dröge , Lars |
Subject: |
feature request to support stdin in GNU install |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:55:24 +0000 |
Dear coreutils developers,
I have read many tutorials, where a secret is written to a file, which
is protected afterwards, like this:
```
generate_secret > keyfile
chmod 0600 keyfile
```
I hope that the following approach would have been intuitive and more
secure, as the keyfile was never readable:
```
generate_secret | install -x -m 0600 keyfile
```
where "-x" would indicate, that stdin shall be used as source. Please
take "x" as a placeholder; any letter works for me.
Do you like the idea to support stdin?
Best regards,
Lars
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