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bug#50953: auth-source-pass should not be limited to a local directory
From: |
Lorenzo Martinico |
Subject: |
bug#50953: auth-source-pass should not be limited to a local directory |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 23:06:31 +0100 |
Apologies if this is not the appropriate mailing list for this message.
I would like to put in a bug report / feature request for
auth-source-pass to stop using the local file directory and just rely on
the output of the pass command (or provide an option to do that
instead).
For context, I would like to be able to use the pass command (or rather,
an alias) to fetch files from a different host on every request, but
not store the gpg files on my local machine. This workflow is currently
not supported by auth-source-pass, as I need to specify a local
directory from where to read a list of .gpg files. The behaviour I'd
like to see is that the current parsing of the directory and .gpg files
should be replaced with calling some equivalent functions from a pass
binary, and parse the results. This is currently supported by the
contrib password-store package, where the family of password-store--run
functions does return the output from the pass command directly.
However, that package is not suitable for building a complete solution,
as many functions are not implemented or relay on auth-source-pass.
I consider the above a high-impact bug, as smtpmail authentication
requires auth-source, making email password storage quite restrictive.
However, if there are some good reason for why the current behaviour
should be kept, I would be happy to just hear any suggestion on how to
adjust this through configuration, as I understand my usage for pass might
not be very common.
Cheers,
Lorenzo Martinico
- bug#50953: auth-source-pass should not be limited to a local directory,
Lorenzo Martinico <=