Password-Store Digest, Vol 42, Issue 29

Renato Alves alves.rjc at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 13:23:41 CET 2016


I don't see what's wrong either. Looks fine to me. Have you tried creating a file manually there?


On 30/11/16 12:12, Jonathan Clark wrote:
> Thanks for the help. 
> 
> Here is the output of ls -ld /dev/shm: 
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 220 Nov 30 11:10 /dev/shm
> 
> Looks ok to me. Still baffled.
> 
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>        1. Cannot edit existing password using vim (or gvim) (Jonathan Clark)
>        2. Re: Cannot edit existing password using vim (or gvim)
>           (Renato Alves)
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:13:21 +0000
>     From: Jonathan Clark <ads at whatho.net <mailto:ads at whatho.net>>
>     To: password-store at lists.zx2c4.com <mailto:password-store at lists.zx2c4.com>
>     Subject: Cannot edit existing password using vim (or gvim)
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>             <CAHPvVMY1K99_zeGw3NmbSL1YLDPX53WsnxhdTKN_H+4PyhnEfA at mail.gmail.com <mailto:CAHPvVMY1K99_zeGw3NmbSL1YLDPX53WsnxhdTKN_H%2B4PyhnEfA at mail.gmail.com>>
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>     When I try to edit an existing password using vim, when it comes time to
>     save (I enter :w as a vim command) I get a message
>     "/dev/shm/pass.tQVSIzXmX17hI/McsB5-test-pass.txt" E212: Cannot open file
>     for writing
> 
> 
>     "/dev/shm/pass.BrDRETCxY0V0s/DlvET-visa...3603.txt" E212: Cannot open file
>     for writing".
> 
>     I'm sure I used to be able to edit passwords, but I can't work out why I
>     can't save to /dev/shm. Does anybody have any ideas?
> 
>     Steps to recreate:
> 
>     1) pass add test-pass (followed by entering the password twice)
>     2) pass show test-pass N.B. works fine and displays password from previous
>     step
>     3) pass edit test-pass
> 
>     opens instance of gvim, so I make a change and :w and I get the error
>     message above.
> 
> 
>     Notes:
> 
> 
>        1. mount | grep "shm" gives
>        tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>        2. df -h | grep shm gives
>        tmpfs                  3.8G  152M  3.7G   4% /dev/shm i.e. we're not out
>        of temp disk space
>        3. crontab -e works, so saving to a temporary file seems to work
>        4. with EDITOR set to nano, it seems to work
> 
>     Thanks,
>     A
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>     Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:51:48 +0100
>     From: Renato Alves <alves.rjc at gmail.com <mailto:alves.rjc at gmail.com>>
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>     Subject: Re: Cannot edit existing password using vim (or gvim)
>     Message-ID: <2a99a911-931e-047d-ec5d-8d11c9cee0c9 at gmail.com <mailto:2a99a911-931e-047d-ec5d-8d11c9cee0c9 at gmail.com>>
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>     Most likely permissions. Try: ls -ld /dev/shm
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> 
>     On 29/11/16 18:13, Jonathan Clark wrote:
>     > When I try to edit an existing password using vim, when it comes time to save (I enter :w as a vim command) I get a message
>     > "/dev/shm/pass.tQVSIzXmX17hI/McsB5-test-pass.txt" E212: Cannot open file for writing
>     >
>     >
>     > "/dev/shm/pass.BrDRETCxY0V0s/DlvET-visa...3603.txt" E212: Cannot open file for writing".
>     >
>     > I'm sure I used to be able to edit passwords, but I can't work out why I can't save to /dev/shm. Does anybody have any ideas?
>     >
>     > Steps to recreate:
>     >
>     > 1) pass add test-pass (followed by entering the password twice)
>     > 2) pass show test-pass N.B. works fine and displays password from previous step
>     > 3) pass edit test-pass
>     >
>     >     opens instance of gvim, so I make a change and :w and I get the error message above.
>     >
>     >
>     > Notes:
>     >
>     >  1. mount | grep "shm" gives
>     >     tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>     >  2. df -h | grep shm gives
>     >     tmpfs                  3.8G  152M  3.7G   4% /dev/shm i.e. we're not out of temp disk space
>     >  3. crontab -e works, so saving to a temporary file seems to work
>     >  4. with EDITOR set to nano, it seems to work
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > A
>     >
>     >
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