[vpnc-devel] Asking for patch merge

[Davide Pucci]

Hi all. 
I'm Davide Pucci, systems engineer and developer at I-Node S.r.l.. 
I got in contact with VPNC source code as I needed to make it read and load connection credentials via command line, obfuscating them in ps - or similar - process view. 
So, I wrote a patch that: 


    1. firstly allow the group secret and the user password to be passed in command line in argv 
    2. secondly, included a new field in config_name_s struct to include an integer needsEncryption field, passed in config_names array, to trigger eventual obfuscation of field in process argv 
    3. finally, in argument parsing phase, if a field asks for encryption (obfuscation) via needsEncryption field, I populate the config value pointer with a new one, referencing a new memory location containing the original argv[i] pointing value, and replace argv[i] pointing value with a random string. 

The full patch is sent as attachment. 
I'm writing this just to know if there's a way to officially ask for this to be included in mainstream branch. 
Waiting for any feedback. 

Regards, 
Davide Pucci. 

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