Re: using gpg protected files to read passwords

Lugubris <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:26:52 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.getmail.user
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Charles Cazabon @ 2019-09-06 16:31 UTC:

> Lugubris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I know about gnome keyring's integration, will there be an option for using
>> gpg protected files to read passwords? pass.gpg will have the saved password
>> and getmail will read it from that file.
>
> getmail can get the password from any arbitrary external command; see the
> password_command parameter.  Just write a shellscript that will produce the
> password from the gpg file for getmail to read.
>
> Note you can't interact with that process (i.e. see its output or provide
> keyboard input to it), as it's run as a separate process behind the scenes.

oh! my bad, I didn't read the docs and assummed this feature was not
present (not mentioned in archwiki). I wrote a script to retrive my
passwords from pass command [0]. Is it secure though? (pass command
outputs password to termial when run so does it leave the password
somewhere when using it with getmail?)

[0] -> https://ttm.sh/ah.txt

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                                Lugubris

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