[pbs-devel] [PATCH backup 3/5] pbs-client: allow reading fingerprint from system credential

Maximiliano Sandoval m.sandoval at proxmox.com
Wed Mar 26 15:26:07 CET 2025


Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval at proxmox.com>
---
 pbs-client/src/tools/mod.rs | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pbs-client/src/tools/mod.rs b/pbs-client/src/tools/mod.rs
index acb932c64..5dd3b6b10 100644
--- a/pbs-client/src/tools/mod.rs
+++ b/pbs-client/src/tools/mod.rs
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ const CRED_PBS_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD: &str = "proxmox-backup-client.encryption-pas
 const CRED_PBS_PASSWORD: &str = "proxmox-backup-client.password";
 /// Credential name of the the repository.
 const CRED_PBS_REPOSITORY: &str = "proxmox-backup-client.repository";
+/// Credential name of the the fingerprint.
+const CRED_PBS_FINGERPRINT: &str = "proxmox-backup-client.fingerprint";
 
 pub const REPO_URL_SCHEMA: Schema = StringSchema::new("Repository URL.")
     .format(&BACKUP_REPO_URL)
@@ -211,6 +213,30 @@ pub fn get_default_repository() -> Option<String> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Gets the repository fingerprint.
+///
+/// Looks for the fingerprint in the `PBS_FINGERPRINT` environment variable, if
+/// there isn't one it reads the `proxmox-backup-client.fingerprint`
+/// [credential].
+///
+/// Returns `None` if neither the environment variable or credentials are
+/// present.
+///
+/// [credential]: https://systemd.io/CREDENTIALS/
+pub fn get_fingerprint() -> Option<String> {
+    if let Ok(fingerprint) = std::env::var(ENV_VAR_PBS_FINGERPRINT) {
+        Some(fingerprint)
+    } else if let Ok(Some(fingerprint)) = get_credential(CRED_PBS_FINGERPRINT).inspect_err(|err| {
+        proxmox_log::error!("Could not read credential {CRED_PBS_FINGERPRINT}: {err}")
+    }) {
+        String::from_utf8(fingerprint)
+            .inspect_err(|_err| proxmox_log::error!("non-utf8 fingerprint credential"))
+            .ok()
+    } else {
+        None
+    }
+}
+
 pub fn remove_repository_from_value(param: &mut Value) -> Result<BackupRepository, Error> {
     if let Some(url) = param
         .as_object_mut()
@@ -268,7 +294,7 @@ fn connect_do(
     auth_id: &Authid,
     rate_limit: RateLimitConfig,
 ) -> Result<HttpClient, Error> {
-    let fingerprint = std::env::var(ENV_VAR_PBS_FINGERPRINT).ok();
+    let fingerprint = get_fingerprint();
 
     let password = get_password()?;
     let options = HttpClientOptions::new_interactive(password, fingerprint).rate_limit(rate_limit);
@@ -278,7 +304,7 @@ fn connect_do(
 
 /// like get, but simply ignore errors and return Null instead
 pub async fn try_get(repo: &BackupRepository, url: &str) -> Value {
-    let fingerprint = std::env::var(ENV_VAR_PBS_FINGERPRINT).ok();
+    let fingerprint = get_fingerprint();
     let password = get_password().unwrap_or(None);
 
     // ticket cache, but no questions asked
-- 
2.39.5





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