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authorJake Hunsaker <jhunsake@redhat.com>2019-04-10 11:55:53 -0400
committerBryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>2019-05-14 11:25:01 +0100
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[Plugin] Allow plugins to capture environment variables
Adds a new 'add_env_var()' method to the Plugin class, which allows plugins to specify which environment variables should be recorded in the sos archive. This functions as a whitelist, as only environment variables requested by plugins will be captured. The new method accepts either a single string, or a list of strings. Collection of environment variables is done _after_ we have run collect() for each plugin, and will be written to the 'environment' file in the archive root. Only environment variables that exist will be written, so if a plugin requests an environment variable be captured and it does not appear in the file the chances are good that the variable is not set on the system. Each environment variable will only be captured once - so multiple plugins may specify the same environment variable without an issue. Additionally, when a plugin uses add_env_var(), the value passed as well as an upper- and lower- cased variant of the value will be added to the list of variables to be collected as well. This is because it is a frequent support issue where end users set an incorrectly-cased variable, and support representatives will want to know when this is the case. Because this functionality works off of a whitelist, environment variable values are not sanitized. Note also that due to the variable name casing functionality mentioned above, this means there is a small chance where sensitive data stored in differently-cased variables of the same name as common variables could be unintentionally captured. Use the --no-env-vars option to prevent capturing any environment variables wholesale. Fixes: #1396 Resolves: #1643 Signed-off-by: Jake Hunsaker <jhunsake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>
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