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Author SHA1 Message Date
jekil
05a82075cf Some esthetic fixes to documentation 2021-08-20 08:58:08 +02:00
Nex
38b7aa6032 Updated doc on backup 2021-07-31 10:19:38 +02:00
Nex
feb285015a Merge branch 'update-libimobiledevice-docs' of https://github.com/dkg/mvt into dkg-update-libimobiledevice-docs 2021-07-31 10:16:58 +02:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
7b1b31f7be Update libimobiledevice docs about backup password reset
In this stage, the user is likely to want to run `idevicebackup2` in
interactive mode, so clearly specify the `-i` flag in the right place
(just dropping `-i` at the end of the command does not work as
expected -- i think `idevicebackup2 backup encryption on -i` tries to
set the password to `-i`).

More importantly, note that resetting the password by resetting all
the settings runs a risk of removing some of the forensic information.
Etienne identified a file that he thought was wiped as a result of
this in the call this morning, but I don't remember which file it was.

Maybe `id_status_cache.json` ?  If you have more concrete info, please
add it here too!
2021-07-30 23:49:06 -04:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
53adc05338 mvt-ios decrypt-backup: Enable pulling password from the environment.
Specifying the password on the command line with `--password XXX`
leaves the password itself visible to any process on the machine which
can scan the process table.

On some systems (including common GNU/Linux distributions) this
visibility is possible by default.

This change should make it possible to offer the password without
putting it into the process table; rather, the user puts the password
in the environment, and specifies the name of the environment
variable, like so:

```
$ export MVT_IOS_BACKUP_PASSWORD=WronglySconeRoundnessUnruffled
$ mvt-ios decrypt-backup -d /path/to/dest /path/to/data/XXXXXXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY/
$ unset MVT_IOS_BACKUP_PASSWORD
```

or you can do so using a prefixed env var, as described in the updated
check.md documentation.
2021-07-30 23:10:54 -04:00
Pavel Kirkovsky
30d0348256 Added extract-key info to main docs 2021-07-23 03:46:48 -07:00
tek
ce9ee09c2d Improves documentation 2021-07-18 16:33:34 +02:00
Nex
065a62cee1 First commit 2021-07-16 08:05:01 +02:00