[pass] Simple password store

[Dashamir Hoxha]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Kevin Lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:16 PM Dashamir Hoxha <dashohoxha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Kevin Lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have no idea why you want to do this since your shell already has
>>> completion. Not sure of the win here.
>>>
>> I want to ask user for the passphrase only once, save it in a variable,
>>
>
> I'll admit it, I lied. I guessed you were going to do something like that.
>
> Just so I can sleep at night with a clean conscience, you're aware that is
> a horribly bad idea to do, yes? There's a good chance your password could
> end up in a swap file or in a core file. A root user can just do "ps
> auxwwe". And I assume you're passing that password in via the command line
> so a well timed ps by *any* user will get your password.
>

Now I am passing the passphrase from stdin, using the option
`--passphrase-fd 0` of gpg:
https://github.com/dashohoxha/pw/commit/2a567e11bf56943446d28be83b7777b3e71b99f7#diff-1a5b08bb94541dc292409e7e18b9c3eaL22

After trying lots of other things, I was lucky to find this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19895122/how-to-use-gnupgs-passphrase-fd-argument

I think that at least "ps auxwwe" is not an issue now. Is it?
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