Re: using gpg protected files to read passwords

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lugubris <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > getmail can get the password from any arbitrary external command; see the
> > password_command parameter.
> 
> 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?)

No, it won't leave or store the password anywhere.  It reads it from stdout of
the subprocess, that's all.

Charles
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