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iLemming
iLemming

Reputation: 36214

How to easily get password from authinfo.gpg

Once gpg installed and configured, it can be used for variety of things. I even learned how to keep arbitrary data encrypted for my applications, I can easily do something like this:

gpg2 -q --for-your-eyes-only --no-tty -d ~/my-encrypted-file.gpg

One thing I can't figure out though, there's gotta be an idiomatic way of retrieving passwords from authinfo.gpg, right?

So let's say I want to have a script that mounts an external drive to some remote machine (let's call it 'beefy-server'), but I don't want to expose the uname/password. If I keep it encrypted in authinfo.gpg in standardized form: 

machine beefy-server login admin password foobar1030

I can of course, do:

gpg2 -q --for-your-eyes-only --no-tty -d ~/.authinfo.gpg

and then pipe it to awk, sed and whatnot, right now I'm doing it like this:

gpg2 -q --for-your-eyes-only --no-tty -d ~/.authinfo.gpg \
| grep beefy-server \
| sed -e "s/.*password\(.*\).*$/\1/"

But is there a better way?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 735

Answers (1)

Ajned
Ajned

Reputation: 573

I think that the conventioned way to pipe gpg output through awk is

gpg2 -q --for-your-eyes-only --no-tty -d ~/.authinfo.gpg | awk '/machine beefy-server login yourname/ {print $NF}'

where it is assumed that you have a line in authinfo.gpg that has details of the beefy-server and the password at the end. Like so

machine beefy-server login yourname port 465 password myverysecretpassword

Upvotes: 3

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