VIRT-WHO(8)

💖 NAME 💖

virt-who-password — the lil utility that encrypts passwords for virt-who, bestie 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

virt-who-password [-h|--help]

🎀 USAGE 🎀

okay so here's the vibe: virt-who-password prompts you for a password, and then writes the encrypted password you just typed out to the standard output. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶

⚠️ bestie, listen. this utility must be executed as root, because the encryption key gets written into a file that's only readable by root. and like... heads up: root can decrypt the password. no cap. 👑

the encryption key is written into the file /var/lib/virt-who/key, so make sure that this file is only readable and writable by root. fr fr, lock that thing down. 🔒

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Radek Novacek <rnovacek at redhat dot com> — the icon who wrote this 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie! this was virt-who, from the System Manager's Manual, dated June 2014. ily, go encrypt responsibly 🦋✨