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block: deprecate iSCSI 'password' in favour of 'password-secret'

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Support for referencing secret objects was added in

  commit b189346eb1
  Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu Jan 21 14:19:21 2016 +0000

    iscsi: add support for getting CHAP password via QCryptoSecret API

The existing 'password' option is overdue for deprecation and
subsequent removal.

Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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@ -301,6 +301,14 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format::
json:{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"}
``iscsi,password=xxx`` (since 8.0)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Specifying the iSCSI password in plain text on the command line using the
``password`` option is insecure. The ``password-secret`` option should be
used instead, to refer to a ``--object secret...`` instance that provides
a password via a file, or encrypted.
Backwards compatibility
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