SUPPORTUTILS-SCRUB.CONF(5)

🎀 SUPPORTUTILS-SCRUB.CONF(5) 🎀

okay bestie, so this is a File Formats Manual page for supportutils-scrub.conf, and literally it's the whole vibe-check control panel for supportutils-scrub. buckle up 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

supportutils-scrub.conf — the configuration file for supportutils-scrub, no cap 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/etc/supportutils-scrub/supportutils-scrub.conf

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so supportutils-scrub.conf is THE config file for supportutils-scrub, which is a tool made to sanitize and remove sensitive data from SUSE supportconfig tarballs 🧹✨ This file lowkey controls so many aspects of the obfuscation process — like which types of data get obfuscated, and how chatty the output is. she's the main character of the whole operation, fr fr.

normally the config lives at /etc/supportutils-scrub/supportutils-scrub.conf, but you can also pass an alternative path when you run the supportutils-scrub command. flexible queen 👑

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💖 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 💖

every option is a key-value pair, formatted like key = value. Any line starting with # is a comment and gets ignored entirely — she's just talking, don't listen 🙈

• obfuscate_private_ip — decides whether private IP addresses (like 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x) should get obfuscated. 👀
  • Values: yes or no (default: no)
• obfuscate_public_ip — specifies whether public IP addresses should get obfuscated.
  • Values: yes or no (default: yes)
• obfuscate_domain — indicates whether domain names should get obfuscated.
  • Values: yes or no (default: yes)
• obfuscate_username — specifies whether usernames should get obfuscated.
  • Values: yes or no (default: yes)
• obfuscate_hostname — determines whether hostnames should get obfuscated.
  • Values: yes or no (default: yes)
• obfuscate_ipv6 — indicates whether IPv6 addresses should get obfuscated.
  • Values: yes or no (default: yes)
• obfuscate_mac — specifies whether MAC addresses should get obfuscated.
  • Values: yes or no (default: yes)
• verbose — enables or disables verbose output while the obfuscation is happening. When it's on, you get way more detailed logging info — she's telling you everything 🔥
  • Values: true or false (default: true)
• log_level — specifies the logging level for the application. This is what decides how much detail actually ends up in the logs.
  • Values: normal or verbose (default: verbose)
• use_key_words_file — determines whether a file full of specific keywords should be used for obfuscation. If it's enabled, keywords found in the specified file get obfuscated according to the config ✨
  • Values: yes or no (default: yes)
• key_words_file — specifies the path to the file containing the keywords to be obfuscated. Every keyword should be on its own separate line, one per line bestie 📝
  • Default: /var/lib/supportutils-scrub-keywords.txt
• secure_tmp — when this is set to yes, archives get extracted to /dev/shm (a RAM-backed tmpfs) instead of sitting alongside the archive on persistent storage. If /dev/shm isn't available it falls back to /var/tmp. This is equivalent to the --secure-tmp command-line flag 🧚
  • Values: yes or no (default: no)
• encrypt_mappings — when this is set to yes, the obfuscation mapping file gets encrypted with a user-supplied passphrase (AES-128 via Fernet). Needs the Python cryptography package to work. This is equivalent to the --encrypt-mappings command-line flag 🔐
  • Values: yes or no (default: no)

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/supportutils-scrub/supportutils-scrub.conf — the default configuration file for supportutils-scrub. iconic, the standard.
• /etc/supportutils-scrub/supportutils-scrub-keywords.txt — the default file containing keywords to be obfuscated, when use_key_words_file is set to yes.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ronald Pina <ronald.pina@suse.com> — thank you legend 🫶

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

supportutils-scrub(8), supportconfig(8) — go read those next, iykyk ✨

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