From 42747588c57479a83b831a1940c182a733e25817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 15:26:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix for password file missing

---
 scripts/security/password_functions.sh | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/security/password_functions.sh b/scripts/security/password_functions.sh
index 08409311..92e0d71e 100644
--- a/scripts/security/password_functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/security/password_functions.sh
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ function load_password()
     echo 'The load_password function needs a filename to read the password from.'
     return 1
   fi
+  if [ ! -f "$passfile" ]; then
+    # no file, which is not an error necessarily, but return a blank password
+    # in any case.
+    return 0
+  fi
   local passwd
   read passwd < "$passfile"
   echo "$passwd"
-- 
2.34.1