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authorMichael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>2017-11-07 00:15:27 +0100
committerMichael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>2017-11-07 00:15:27 +0100
commit8254edbf64d60bef0d70eee01490103148dba100 (patch)
tree282eb053995da653ee170e910da05d9530d4ff53 /man/nm-settings.xsl
parent857e5310d1764114da056cd2eb3d88625bb0ba81 (diff)
parent90e8691111889a7b5f3c812f5a41f15a8a058913 (diff)
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/1.9.90'
Update to upstream version '1.9.90'
with Debian dir 83533c23245795edf9fe4919e4af3e78f2938519
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@@ -87,13 +87,18 @@
         <refsect2 id="secrets-flags">
           <title>Secret flag types:</title>
           <para>
-            Each secret property in a setting has an associated <emphasis>flags</emphasis> property
+            Each password or secret property in a setting has an associated <emphasis>flags</emphasis> property
             that describes how to handle that secret. The <emphasis>flags</emphasis> property is a bitfield
             that contains zero or more of the following values logically OR-ed together.
           </para>
           <itemizedlist>
             <listitem>
-              <para>0x0 (none) - the system is responsible for providing and storing this secret.</para>
+              <para>0x0 (none) - the system is responsible for providing and storing this secret. This
+              may be required so that secrets are already available before the user logs in.
+              It also commonly means that the secret will be stored in plain text on disk, accessible
+              to root only. For example via the keyfile settings plugin as described in the "PLUGINS" section
+              in <link linkend='NetworkManager.conf'><citerefentry><refentrytitle>NetworkManager.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></link>.
+              </para>
             </listitem>
             <listitem>
               <para>0x1 (agent-owned) - a user-session secret agent is responsible for providing and storing