[pass] Using pass as non interactive password manager

[Kyle Marek-Spartz]

I've written a few scripts that do this sort of thing:

curl -u username:$(pass such/website) http://such.website

If I'm going to do a bunch of such requests, I start up gpg-agent and do
a bash for loop.


notfreebeer at openmailbox.org writes:

> Hi,
> i'm trying to set up a little home server to, among other things, download my
> mails via POP from various mail servers. I'm using mpop [0] for this, which
> can read user's POP passwords either in plain text from the configuration
> file, (which i don't like) or using a nice eval command.
> My idea was to use pass as password manager, so i don't have to store
> passwords in plain text. I'd set gpg-agent ttl variables to a very high value
> to prevent expiration, feed the master password for the key encrypting the
> password-store once, manually at server startup, and then let everything
> happen in the background with mpop using eval on "pass show". The first
> problem i had to face was cron not using environment variable for the password
> store path, which i solved explicitly specifying it in crontab, but this is
> more a general unix issue.
> The second problem, the one which pushed me to ask for help here, is that
> being used in background, gpg complains about not being able to write on tty.
> So i tried putting "--no-tty" in the PGP_OPTS variable inside pass, but fairly
> enough now mpop says it doesn't receive any output from the eval...
>
> Can anyone imagine a way to workaround this issue? Did anyone ever use pass in
> a similar situation?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> [0] http://mpop.sourceforge.net/
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Kyle Marek-Spartz