From 90e8691111889a7b5f3c812f5a41f15a8a058913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Biebl Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 00:14:39 +0100 Subject: New upstream version 1.9.90 --- man/nm-settings.xsl | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/nm-settings.xsl') diff --git a/man/nm-settings.xsl b/man/nm-settings.xsl index 36fb8288..57d5ce41 100644 --- a/man/nm-settings.xsl +++ b/man/nm-settings.xsl @@ -87,13 +87,18 @@ Secret flag types: - Each secret property in a setting has an associated flags property + Each password or secret property in a setting has an associated flags property that describes how to handle that secret. The flags property is a bitfield that contains zero or more of the following values logically OR-ed together. - 0x0 (none) - the system is responsible for providing and storing this secret. + 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 NetworkManager.conf5. + 0x1 (agent-owned) - a user-session secret agent is responsible for providing and storing -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5