Output of restic version
restic 0.9.4 compiled with go1.11.5 on linux/amd64
What should restic do differently? Which functionality do you think we should add?
Retrieving keys via gopass (https://www.gopass.pw/) would be super awesome, because environment variables are insecure.
What are you trying to do?
I like to pipe my repository passwords to restic in a secure manner, without storing them in cleartext password files or environment variables
Did restic help you or made you happy in any way?
restic is awesome!
need feedback
shibumi
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Can't you just read the key from /dev/stdin?
Crest
on 18 Feb 2019
because environment variables are insecure.
Why is that? I think it's a common misconception, I've written a bit about it here: https://forum.restic.net/t/read-password-from-gnome-keyring/1094/6?u=fd0
If you still don't like to use environment variables, you can use the shell to read the password:
$ restic --password-file <(pass restic/password) [...]
fd0
on 18 Feb 2019
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thanks this works for me.
shibumi
on 3 Mar 2019
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Why is that? I think it's a common misconception, I've written a bit about it here: https://forum.restic.net/t/read-password-from-gnome-keyring/1094/6?u=fd0
If you still don't like to use environment variables, you can use the shell to read the password: