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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions README.txt
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Expand Up @@ -51,3 +51,13 @@ Quickstart:
./loxodo.py -i
runs Loxodo in command line interactive mode


Getting the pass phrase from the environment:
---------------------------------------------

This is risky and is intended only for careful automation purposes.
Only consider this if you are confident you can keep the contents of your environment
variables secret. In particular, someone who gets hold of the same filesystem with both the password safe
file and the environment variable has, effecitvely, full access to all your passwords.

If you can live with the risk you can set VAULT_PASSWORD in the environment.
5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion src/frontends/cmdline/loxodo.py
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Expand Up @@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ def _encode_line(self, line):
def open_vault(self):
print("Opening " + self.vault_file_name + "...")
try:
self.vault_password = self._getpass("Vault password: ")
if os.environ.get('VAULT_PASSWORD'):
self.vault_password = os.environ['VAULT_PASSWORD']
else:
self.vault_password = self._getpass("Vault password: ")
except EOFError:
print("\n\nBye.")
raise RuntimeError("No password given")
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