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Bug 341541

Summary:	Want to disable logging of commandline
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Evan Hughes <evan_hughes>
Component:	Framework	Assignee:	equinox.framework-inbox <equinox.framework-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	john.camelon, remy.suen, tjwatson
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	Juno M6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Evan Hughes

2011-03-31 16:01:59 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.5

We have an RCP app that people occasionally pass their password into using the commandline. OSGi logs the commandline args on session start-up, so their password is written into a log. 

We'd like to be able to disable logging, so that the password doesn't get written out. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Evan Hughes

2011-03-31 16:03:18 EDT

You can see our bug tracker at https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/158182.

Comment 2 Thomas Watson

2011-03-31 16:19:18 EDT

Interestingly enough we omit the option named "-password".  That does not help you since they are using -P in your case ;-)

What are you actually requesting to be done?  

- disable all logging to the .log file
- only disable to logging of the command line args
- or something else?

Do you want a fix to the 3.5 stream?

In 3.7 you can disable all writing to the .log file with the option eclipse.log.enabled=false

Comment 3 Evan Hughes

2011-03-31 16:31:16 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> What are you actually requesting to be done?  
> - disable all logging to the .log file
> - only disable to logging of the command line args
> - or something else?

   Any of the above would be sufficient. We don't really use the OSGi log, so I'd be fine with a backport of the 3.7 fix. 

> Do you want a fix to the 3.5 stream?

   If that's possible. I don't know if we're in a position to adopt, however.

Comment 4 Evan Hughes

2011-08-31 10:20:10 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> In 3.7 you can disable all writing to the .log file with the option
> eclipse.log.enabled=false

That seems like a big hammer. Is there an option that would prevent logging of the commandline arguments?

(Again, if that was backported to 3.5, I doubt we'd be able to adopt, but it would be handy for the long term. Other Equinox users may care.)

Comment 5 Thomas Watson

2011-08-31 10:42:01 EDT

OK, we can consider doing something simple in Juno.

Comment 6 Thomas Watson

2012-03-05 15:28:35 EST

I went ahead and added an option eclipse.log.include.commandline which is set to true by default.  If set to anything other than "true" then we avoid writing command line args to the log.

Fixed with commit:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.framework.git/commit/?id=3c2df552bd099a46c95788c2cf76af4bdfd9472a