On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:09:07AM +0000, Zé Loff wrote:
> Not sure how advisable this is, but I'm using a gpg encrypted file,
> which I keep somewhere hidden (just because). Just put them in file
> foo and do 'gpg -e foo' (assuming you've already setup gpg). When you
> need to look something up just do 'gpg -d foo' and the file gets
> decrypted to stdout.
>
> I use it mostly for mutt (see the top of
> http://nixtricks.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/mutt-multiple-email-accounts-using-hooks/)
> but you can keep anything in there, obviously.
>
I have this snippet in .kshrc, it needs the xclip tool from packages.
function getpass {
gpg --decrypt $HOME/pw.gpg | grep "^$1" | awk '{print $2}' \
| tr -d '\n' | xclip -i
}
The plaintext of pw.gpg has lines like this:
key password
Run 'getpass somekey', enter pgp passphrase, and you can paste the
password with the middle button (if you want it to go into the e.g.
GTK+ paste buffer instead, try the -selection option of xclip).
To generate passwords, I use 'pwgen 32' (see pwgen package).
> its not like I'm keeping the password to root accounts or anything of
> the like in there...
Me neither.
