Hi Eduardo, I know you've been working a lot on alpine lately, and I wanted to pass this along.
I haven't dug into the source code, but one Debian user reports that the -passfile option seems to have no effect. Another reports that -passfile works fine so long as the file already exists before alpine starts. I presume that the latter understanding is accurate, and the first one is a user confused by Alpine's behavior. It seems to me that users would be best-served if alpine was willing to create passfile files. Or, if not, users would be second-best-served by alpine exiting with an error, asking the user to create the file. What do you think? Thanks! -- Asheesh.
