💥 Change --password-file behavior

cli/src/cli.rs

@@ -277,7 +277,11 @@ pub(crate) struct PasswordArgs {
         help = "Password of archive. If password is not given it's asked from the tty"
     )]
     pub(crate) password: Option<Option<String>>,
-    #[arg(long, value_name = "FILE", help = "Read password from specified file")]
+    #[arg(
+        long,
+        value_name = "FILE",
+        help = "Read the password from the specified file. Only the first non-empty line is used, and trailing newlines are ignored."
+    )]
     pub(crate) password_file: Option<PathBuf>,
 }
 

cli/src/command.rs

@@ -22,12 +22,21 @@ pub(crate) mod strip;
 pub mod update;
 pub mod xattr;
 
-use crate::cli::{CipherAlgorithmArgs, Cli, Commands, GlobalContext, PasswordArgs};
-use std::{fs, io};
+use crate::{
+    cli::{CipherAlgorithmArgs, Cli, Commands, GlobalContext, PasswordArgs},
+    utils::fs,
+};
+use std::io;
 
 fn ask_password(args: PasswordArgs) -> io::Result<Option<Vec<u8>>> {
     if let Some(path) = args.password_file {
-        return Ok(Some(fs::read(path)?));
+        return match fs::read_first_non_empty_line(path)? {
+            Some(password) => Ok(Some(password.into_bytes())),
+            None => Err(io::Error::new(
+                io::ErrorKind::InvalidData,
+                "password is empty",
+            )),
+        };
     };
     Ok(match args.password {
         Some(Some(password)) => {

cli/src/utils/fs.rs

@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ pub(crate) use file_id::HardlinkResolver;
 pub(crate) use nodump::is_nodump;
 pub(crate) use owner::*;
 pub(crate) use pna::fs::*;
-use std::{fs, io, path::Path};
+use std::{
+    fs,
+    io::{self, BufRead},
+    path::Path,
+};
 
 /// Returns the current process umask.
 ///
@@ -162,3 +166,30 @@ pub(crate) fn file_create(path: impl AsRef<Path>, overwrite: bool) -> io::Result
         fs::File::create_new(path)
     }
 }
+
+/// Returns the first non-empty line from a file as UTF-8, if any.
+///
+/// Empty lines are skipped. The trailing line terminator (`\n` or `\r\n`)
+/// is not included in the returned string.
+///
+/// # Returns
+///
+/// - `Ok(Some(line))` if a non-empty line was found.
+/// - `Ok(None)` if the file contains no non-empty lines.
+/// - `Err(e)` if an I/O error occurs while opening or reading the file.
+///
+/// # Errors
+///
+/// Propagates any I/O error that occurs while opening or reading the file.
+#[inline]
+pub(crate) fn read_first_non_empty_line<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> io::Result<Option<String>> {
+    let file = fs::File::open(path)?;
+    let reader = io::BufReader::new(file);
+    for line in reader.lines() {
+        let line = line?;
+        if !line.is_empty() {
+            return Ok(Some(line));
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(None)
+}