I apologise for re-opening this topic. I did not receive the reply kindly sent me by Renato Alves other than as part of a daily digest (I had only subscribed to digests) and I don't know how to simulate a reply to keep the old thread going.
My original query was as follows: When I try to edit an existing password using vim, when it comes time to save (I enter :w as a vim command) I get a message "/dev/shm/pass.tQVSIzXmX17hI/McsB5-test-pass.txt" E212: Cannot open file for writing I'm sure I used to be able to edit passwords, but I can't work out why I can't save to /dev/shm. Does anybody have any ideas? Steps to recreate: 1) pass add test-pass (followed by entering the password twice) 2) pass show test-pass works fine and displays password from previous step 3) pass edit test-pass opens instance of gvim, so I make a change and :w and I get the error message above. Notes: 1. mount | grep "shm" gives tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) 2. df -h | grep shm gives tmpfs 3.8G 152M 3.7G 4% /dev/shm i.e. we're not out of temp disk space (or indeed inodes, checked separately) 3. crontab -e works, so saving to a temporary file seems to work 4. with EDITOR set to nano, it seems to work Renato Alves replied: Most likely permissions. Try: ls -ld /dev/shm When I try ls -ld /dev/shm I get drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 260 Dec 1 09:19 /dev/shm which looks good to me. If I try touch /dev/shm/something then I get no message and something is created in the /dev/shm directory. If I try vim /dev/shm/something-else, add a line, then :wq, it all works fine (the something-else file is created). As I said above, if I do pass edit test-pass, then when I do :w I get e.g. message "/dev/shm/pass.tQVSIzXmX17hI/McsB5-test-pass.txt" E212: Cannot open file for writing but if instead of :w I do :saveas /dev/shm/anything then it saves fine, but of course the original password file is not changed. It seems to be only when I try to write to the temporary filename that is created as part of the process of executing pass edit etc. that I am blocked from writing. Sorry to go on at such length. If anybody has a clue why this might be happening, I would be grateful to know. Thanks.
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